On 06/27/2013 02:37 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote: > so I don't see what advantage having the printer connected to LinuxCNC could > be
It should avoid little nasties like this (scope pix near the end): http://softsolder.com/2013/06/04/marlin-firmware-stepper-interrupt-timing/ Arduino-class microcontrollers have reached a performance dead end, but it's not clear rewriting the same code for faster processors without hard-real-time scheduling will have a better outcome. Plus, AFAICT, if you want a headless / networked printer appliance with all the bells and whistles, it'd be much easier to make one using Linux than by homebrewing all the requisite code on bare metal. For sure, I'd rather use Touchy than a four-line LCD and buttons teleported from the mid 1980s... -- Ed softsolder.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
