Gerry Chu wrote: >==Pico== >Good: Cheap. Sells amps too. >Bad: Parallel port seems kinda iffy. > > > Why is the parallel port "iffy"? Because some newer PCs don't have them built into the motherboard? Just add a PCI plug-in card. For a number of reasons, you really don't want to use laptops for real-time control, anyway.
>If I understand right, I can use EMC as a controller-independent >interface to do PID control. Is this correct? > > > What lies under EMC2 is John Kasunich's HAL. EMC really wants to do G-code or manual movements. HAL is much more general, and you could easily (at least if you're a software guru) put your own source of motion commands in place of EMC's g-code interpreter and motion planner. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
