On 25 November 2015 at 23:45, chris <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd > prefer to get a laptop for my next machine, but I want it to be able to > control > my cnc equipment. Any suggestions?
I only really see two solutions, either use Ethernet to control the CNC machine, or use a dedicated PC to control the CNC. I prefer the second option, just put a Mini-ITX motherboard in the same box as the motor drives and other electronics. Alternatively, use a Beaglebone and Machinekit. They seem to have settled on using a headless BeagleBone and interacting with that remotely from another PC (your laptop, in your case). Acually, here is the fourth of my two suggestions, if you must use USB then you can use a Smoothstepper and Mach3. It works very well for many people. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741551&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
