On 30 October 2014 15:50, Cathrine Hribar <bhri...@bresnan.net> wrote: > Is their any chance that LCNC will be able to connect through usb port in near > future??
Interesting reading: http://doc.utwente.nl/56344/1/Korver03adequacy.pdf Things may have changed with USB3. The thing is that LinuxCNC is a machine controller and it relies on there being a good control lop between the software and the hardware. This loop typically runs at 1mS and USB latencies of 25mS are totally unacceptable in that case. It would be entirely possible to send G-code instructions to an external motion controller by USB, but then what you really have is a GUI that can open files and transmit them, and an enormous amount of wasted code, and you might as well use something optimised for that specific task. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
