On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 13:16 -0800, Edward Bernard wrote: > Geckodrives just announced the upcoming release of their new line of > Geckomotion > drives > (http://geckodrive.net/forums/showthread.php?90-Geckodrive-Changes-and-New-Products-for-2011). > > I've been following Mariss Freimanis's updates on the development of these > drives over at CNCzone for the past year and they sound like really cool. > The > question is: being that they utilize RS-485 rather than step and direction > will > EMC2 be able to control them?
>From the above link, it is hard to tell how much work it would be to use the this new controller with EMC2. The comment about testing with Hyperterm, seems to indicate that the controller accepts motion commands at the level similar to EMC2's NML, so much of the really good stuff in EMC2 (motion control, realtime, halscope/meter) would not be used, just the g-code interpreter and AXIS (not that these aren't really good), but I could be way off base here. I prefer to have as much as possible out in the open source were even a person like me can get to every nook and cranny. It might be a step forward for someone who just wants to make chips though. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
