-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/18/2013 12:41 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: > > Am 18.05.2013 um 19:02 schrieb "Peter C. Wallace" > <p...@mesanet.com>: > >> On Sat, 18 May 2013, Kent A. Reed wrote: >>> > ... >>> Number of LinuxCNC installations (the ballot on the website): >>> something on the order of 10**3 > >> Pretty sure the # of installations is closer to 10**4 > > where do you assume the difference to hide? > > and why dont they fork over gobs of hay so we can affort a decent > server ;)
Well, as a newbie here, my take is: The typical LinuxCNC / Mach user wants a working tool, and is less interested in the "guts" of the control box. That's one reason I want to try and get LinuxCNC (easily) usable by the maker community...these are the folks who are more likely to be contributing code, configuration, and documentation improvements. I was drawn to LinuxCNC via the 3D maker movement, when I reviewed the AVR based control code and typical hardware platforms and realized the general GRBL/Marlin on Arduino solution has limited upside moving forwards. That said, the 3D and maker folks are *RAPIDLY* evolving the control firmware, and combined with running bare-metal on some of the lower-end ARM chips they are poised to rapidly out-pace LinuxCNC in fairly short order. I still think there is a window of opportunity to get LinuxCNC, and specifically HAL in big with the maker crowd. These are folks who re-compile their firmware to change things like steps per distance for a given axis. The ability to easily manipulate PID control loops, run halscope, and all the other goodness that comes with LinuxCNC is so beyond what can be done today with the conventional control software most folks don't even know enough to miss it. So...I'm working on trying to make a fairly simple "off-the-shelf" system out of the BeagleBone that can run LinuxCNC with enough performance to beat out the AVR and low-end ARM based controllers, with the hope that as the maker folk start using this solution other bits and pieces will fall into place (like attractive and intuitive control screens, sample machine setup files with good feed-forward PID temperature control, etc). I realize this may not align well (or at all) with the existing LinuxCNC community's view of it's future, but I'm OK with that. I'm new here and don't know all the things I'm not supposed to do or say. :) - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlGXw/cACgkQLywbqEHdNFweWACg3Dxmu13GjZK9dWps25d/h/E/ F50AnAy+SK3wfzCrQG8r0jQuIbJhHjzI =UCZO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
