Well, as stated when the K9 was first described, it was created as a development tool and we are not selling it as a product. Only a few will be built.
It has two purposes. The first is to help with getting LinuxCNC working on the BeagleBone. As a software development platform, it comes with a few of almost everything we could think of for testing purposes. It is not a good foundation for building a regular machine. For simple machines it far to complicated and it is time consuming to build. On the other hand, it does not have enough industrial interface hardware for large CNC machines. Lots of progress has already been made on moving LinuxCNC to the BeagleBone platform and most of the dust will probably be settled by the time our Wichita meeting is over. The second purpose was to help us explore what people really expect and need from a LinuxCNC system running on a BeagleBone. After that gets sorted out, real products will follow. Please let us know what you feel is necessary for a practical product, and for what type of machine you are expressing your opinions. Thanks, Steve Stallings > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian McMahon [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 11:16 PM > To: EMC developers > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] looks like the K9-SmorgasBoard > will make it toWichita > > Wow, that's quite a board! > > I'm not going to be able to make wichita, but I'd like to get > my hands on one. Are they gonna be for sale? (populated or not) > > Ian > > > On Jun 13, 2013, at 11:06 PM, "Steve Stallings" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Well we got the boards and have one mostly built. > > > > Lots of testing and debug remain, but at least the > > power system functions and the BeagleBone runs in > > place on the K9. > > > > The goal is to have two running boards at the show > > along with enough tools and gizmos to do some serious > > testing of both hardware and software. > > > > Here is a photo of the first board: > > > > http://www.pmdx.com/k9/K9-first-photo.JPG > > > > Cheers, > > Steve Stallings > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > > > Build for Windows Store. > > > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-developers mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
