Upshot: The last installment of this prototyping/demo work, discussing the software side of things. Now on to building the machine.

Topic index:
00:00 - Intro & other resources
02:16 - Virtual machines (and how they don't work)
03:53 - Installation
05:35 - Stepconf Wizard for stepper motors
07:00 - Stepper drive timing
08:50 - Thread timing, latency, & the realtime kernel
13:00 - Parallel port pin settings
15:25 - Axes configuration, lead pitch
16:49 - Axes configuration, velocity and acceleration
18:53 - Affects of hardware on step precision and speed
20:45 - Limits and homes
22:48 - Running the AXIS GUI
24:51 - Loading a gcode file

Russtuff's LinuxCNC playlist:
   • LinuxCNC (v2.7) Tutorials  

LinuxCNC docs:
http://linuxcnc.org/docs/
http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/pdf/Linu...

LinuxCNC forums:
https://forum.linuxcnc.org/

The stepper drive timing wiki page:
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki...

Here's the full plasma build series:
   • CNC Plasma Build (Full)  

Just the LinuxCNC stuff:
   • LinuxCNC Guides  

Additional LinuxCNC documents of mine, and links to other people's video and/or files can be found on my GitHub project here:
https://github.com/swolebro/swolebro-...

Help me make more cool shit:
http://paypal.me/swolebroshopworks