So cool you took the time to make this video for us !

Interesting. The evolution of these systems is intriguing.

Cudo. Czas na próby. Dzięki 🙂

Thanks for doing that video it will help some people just getting into ethercat,Great stuff

Thanks for sharing. A couple of questions I had while researching LinuxCNC and EtherCAT. How would a Beckhoff EL2521 be used to drive a standard Step/Dir Stepper driver? I see it is a supported Beckhoff terminal however I have found little mention on the forums of it's use. Perhaps a video if you have a EL2521 handy? I would also enjoy a follow up video going over the encoder input, I am currently looking into 0-10V and fwd/rev vfd control with encoder spindle feedback using Beckhoff EtherCAT terminals and LinuxCNC.

Great video. Very helpful. Dang, I have been studying up using LinuxCNC with Mesa cards. Now another possibility to mull over.

you rock! thanks for the detailed guide.

There's a lot to digest here but maybe for my second or third generation of machines this will be the right approach.

Hello, Thanks for your great video. I was waiting for that. I'm about to build a cnc machine using raspberry pi. My concern here is that I already bought servo stepper motors from stepperonline with a controler that doesn't have ethernet port. It's the cl57y. But It's got an alarm signal. Do you think I can still use the advance functions of linux cnc such as recovery position in case of emergency ? Can I still use the same setup as yours ? Probably not the same BOB. Thanks

Can you talk about the mounting rails and wire management. Very clean!

Thank you for the video. This was very useful for me. I have a Beelink mini pc instead of a raspberry, but I'm using that to drive 3 nema34 stepper motors with the Rtelligent ect86 ethercat enabled stepper drives. I use usb to rs485 to control my spindle speed which is not so time critical.

What are those stepper drivers you used? You make it look so easy!!

Hey ! great video my friend ! I just would like to ask what Hz (steps/minute) can we get with rasberry pi using ethercad? Because using rasberry I/O gets only couple of kHz

Mind-blowing! 🤯 👍

Good information and reality!!

"Alooominum" - brilliant!

Why is the Ethernet cable not connected?

Awesome 👌

Another super video, I learned so much I forgive the lack of broken endmills. It would be fantastic if you gave your thoughts on ethercat versus a mesa system - e.g. what advantages ethercat brings to the table and why you're exploring it. I haven't found anything online about "why ethercat" except sales pitches from manufacturers. (Of course "because I was curious and felt like it" is a perfectly good reason too.)

hi, firstly thanks for this amazing work. I have a question. This system (raspberry pi 4 + ethercat + linuxcnc) can use for time critical operations? Because I assume that OS is Linux_Preempt_rt so this is a real time system, and you use ethercat it is the most powerful comm. protocol. So if we design our own user interface can we use this system for time critical operations? Thank you.

good video

Hello, we need professional help on linux cnc + ethercat, can we connect somehow?

How did you write sd card with linuxcnc-2.8.1, I have used rpi imager to write sd card but its not booting. Also I have tried other images but they don't have same kernal as shown in notes (linux-headers-4.19.71-rt24-v7l). Is there any alternate solution for this ?

Great video mate from another guy over in the United State.....s lol

Do you have a video that explains what each component and part does? New to cnc and really want to learn I don't know where the forums are so I can learn

Totally out of subject: How do you do the labels on your wires? I see you are using a standard label printer or am I wrong?

Can I use EtherCAT slaves from other brands, like Omron for example?

can we run mach3 ?

Como instalar ethercat no linux

Your safety circuit is not to the safety standards

I only realized this dude was speaking English after 3mins. 🤨

why ethercat, very expensive buy. better use mesa or paraller port controllers.

Your English is pretty good but for tutorials you need to have SUBTITLES !!!