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LinuxCNC with AINo experience required.No coding needed. No Linux syntax. Let AI do it.
From initial setup to repairing existing installations.
A plain-English guide to setting up, diagnosing, and repairing real LinuxCNC machines over SSH — a secure remote connection that lets you reach a machine's control computer from your own desktop or laptop — using an AI coding tool as the technician who's always on call. Developed on a real 1990 Haas VF‑1 with an automatic tool changer. This book walks through how that actually got diagnosed and fixed, AI included — not a hypothetical machine.
Based on a real ATC fault — not a scripted demo.
Two kinds of readers, one book.
Shop owners & machinists
You can read a wiring diagram and trust a dial indicator more than a spec sheet. You've never written a line of code and don't plan to — you want to know what to type, what to watch for, and when to stop and pick up a multimeter instead.
Developers & makers
You're comfortable in a terminal already. What you need is the machine-control side: how HAL files, G-code subroutines, and relay logic actually work, and how to point an AI tool at them without bricking a live spindle.
The parts most guides skip.
- Getting SSH running without turning it into a sysadmin project — from your laptop to the machine's control PC and back.
- Reading a HAL file like a wiring diagram, so you can tell what the AI changed before you let it touch anything.
- Picking a screen set — Probe Basic and other common LinuxCNC screens like Axis and gmoccapy, so you're not locked into one GUI.
- Setting boundaries — what's safe to hand an AI on a live machine, and what you diagnose by hand first.
- Chasing relay, encoder, and motion faults from logs and transcripts instead of guesswork and part-swapping.
- Writing and sanity-checking G-code subroutines the AI drafts, line by line, before they run.
- Knowing when the AI is wrong — the failure modes that look plausible and aren't.
- A ready-made first prompt — included in the quick-start file, so you don't have to figure out what to type to get started. Copy, paste, go.
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