PocketNC Tool Changer Integration

#1

Hi All,
Is there any way to trigger a digital communication output from the beaglebone to demand a tool change to a specific tool.

I’m looking into working up a tool changer for the PocketNC, but there is no point if I can’t get the demand out. Any interface protocol that I can receive with an Arduino would work.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

All the best,
Barry M

#2

There is no out of the box way to do this. It’s certainly possible, but you’ll have to get into the details of the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL): HAL Introduction

The iocontrol component is what would need to get tied into to change the tool change process: IOCONTROL - IO

Here are some tool change specific notes from the LinuxCNC wiki: LinuxCNC Documentation Wiki: ToolChange

#3

Thanks @john,
I’ve been looking into what you suggested, I’ve also been playing around with chat GPT and that has suggested some at face value realistic approaches.

Many Thanks
Barry M

#4

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