reflashing carbide motion controller

[FargoPhil]

I made some minor modifications to grbl, and would like to load it onto the controller for my shapeoko 3. I was all set to go and realized I don't know what version of ardiuno it is. Maybe it doesn't even matter. I just haven't done enough ardiuno development to know any better.

Thanks
Phil

[FargoPhil]

Just to clarify what I"m up to. I've modified the source to grbl, and was successful in uploading the changes to an arduino on the bench (duemilanove). Now that I'm reasonably confident in the changes, I'd like to upload them to the shapeoko 3 controller. I've been using the arduino dev environment, which wants me to select the arduino to use. This is the setting I'm unsure of. I'm guessing it's a Uno, but really don't want to brick my shapeoko.

[AnonymousPerson]

Maybe XLoader is the thing to use?

http://carbide3d.com/docs/reflashing-the-nomad-883/

It's mentioned at the bottom of the page here:

http://docs.carbide3d.com/article/56-ca ... ine-or-jog

I've not been down this track though (yet), so just guessing.

[FargoPhil]

That doesn't quite apply since I don't have a pre-compiled hex file. I need to know what settings to use to compile grbl correctly. Using the arduido dev environment I'm able to compile and upload to a known arduino. The problem I'm wrestling with is I don't know what that carbide motion board is equivalent to. The arduino environment lists a ton of them.

[FargoPhil]

I went with Uno and it seemed to work fine.

[rtlflatt]

I went with Uno and it seemed to work fine.

that was the correct choice. its an arduino uno with stepper drivers integrated

[rodcar125]

Any luck reflashing the carbide motion board?
I would like to do some mods too specially, clearing all the eeprom memory since i think i screwed up the WCS and want to have a clean start

[cvoinescu]

There's not much in EEPROM, so it's easy to clear:

• WCS: clear with G10 L2 P1 X0 Y0 Z0, then repeat with P2, ..., P6. Note that's L2, not L20.
• Startup lines: clear with $N0= and $N1= (nothing after the equal sign).
• Settings: just enter new settings instead (e.g. $1=255).

[FargoPhil]

Any luck reflashing the carbide motion board?
I would like to do some mods too specially, clearing all the eeprom memory since i think i screwed up the WCS and want to have a clean start

cvoinescu is right, that would be like swatting a fly with a bazooka. But to answer your question, yes. I was able to pull the source from github, compile, and upload to the carbide motion board. The procedure is well documented on the grbl github site.

There were two issues I ran into.
1. I didn't know what kind of ardino the carbide motion board is equivalent to. Answer: Uno.
2. The procedure involves importing the grbl source as a zip library. There's an example sketch that you then load which wires everything up. What I didn't realize initially is that the source is copied to a directory owned by the ide. The changes I made weren't being realized by the compiler since it wasn't looking where I thought. My solution was to reimport for every build. Super annoying but not a big deal when you know what's going on. If I were serious about grbl development I'd figure out how to do it right.

[cvoinescu]

that would be like swatting a fly with a bazooka.

You mean it would be cool?