On 8 Oct 2017, at 10:17, Lester Caine wrote: > On 08/10/17 02:45, John Dammeyer wrote: >> The Machine Kit forums give the impression that for any LinuxCNC type >> questions these forums are the place to ask and only Machine Kit specifics >> are addressed on those forums. All very confusing. I was hoping there >> were people on this forum who had experience with both. And maybe even >> Mach3/4 > > I'm still looking at the options for a super ELS ;) > Keeping the User Interface as a separate module, just what is the > difference between using BeagleBone Black as the motion control and one > of the other motion control options?
It's interesting that there are now a much wider range of options for machine control, coming mostly from the hobby-cnc arena. I have a friend who has a small router, built from a kit. It comes with a board pre-loaded with GRBL and he runs it off a laptop. It's an instant solution, and not a bad one at that. The User Interface could do with some tweaks for more convenient operation, but the thing works very well. I don't know if it can run on a BeagleBone. I see other boards being sold as complete all-on-the-board solutions. So there is a significant movement away from the parallel port and towards the small boards, whether Arduino, BB, etc or single-purpose controller boards. Part of that pressure may be commercial, of course. I guess the challenge for some of them will be the on-going support and development. Marcus > Using something like the 13" tablet > I've just picked up as the graphics interface ... and the ELS keyboard > as a pendent ... > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
