On Sunday 22 May 2016 16:16:40 W. Martinjak wrote: > On 2016-05-22 21:44, Gene Heskett wrote: > > However, they will have truly arrived when they grow a PCI bus, and > > a card such as the 5i25 is used to offload the timing difficult > > tasks such as stepper generation and encoder resolving, to the 5i25. > > At that point it can compete, but it won't happen until something > > like that (Mesa 5i25 clone) does become available to the ARM stuff. > > But it will not be any cheaper when that happens as the pci version > > is still $90, which has to be added to the cost of the ARM board > > itself. > > Hi Gene, > > what are you talking about? > My setup uses a Raspberry Pi 3 plus a Mesa 7i90. > The raspi and the 7i90 ar connected with just a 6-pole ribbon cable. > It provides up to 8 channels steppers and servos etc. > And it needs a case with just 1 liter capacity. The whole setup. > > Costs: > raspi3 = 35.00$ > 7i90 = 59.00$ > case = I dont know... ;) > > > matsche
Chuckle, thats great, but as I said also, I am not on the machinekit list, so wasn't aware of developments like that. Thanks for the heads up. As I have another conversion in another couple of months if the sawbones can keep me walking, I'll certainly investigate that. What are you using for a display with that pi? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
