Quote Originally Posted by John McNamara View Post
Hi Imclaren

Your timing is good Leolfs and I have been discussing getting the project underway, We have already purchased the ball screws and linear rails. the initial design for the laser cut components is complete.

The need is to connect the machine to devmonkeys software he that he outputs to the screen, fairly simple I guess once we get a handle on the code he posted.

Any contribution will be appreciated.

I do hope devmonkey is well, if anyone knows him personally send him my regards.

Regards
John
Hi John,

Yes all good here thanks just very busy on other projects and work.

On getting the error signal out of the java app and into your hardware there are two choices,
1. Integrate a serial library,
2. Make a small change to the app to print the error to standard out and then pipe this directly into a serial comm port.

I don't really have time to do this or test it right now but someone else could have a go, (2) is much easier if you don't want to mess about with the code too much, there is a tutorial on windows comm port piping here:
https://batchloaf.wordpress.com/2013...rt-in-windows/

Cheers, Joe