> > > Otherwise I'd probably sell the STMBLs. > > You would probably find a buyer for one, if you have seen the gitter > recently. The one that I blew up and sent to Jack has blown up again.
All three of mine work perfectly. So far. I'm not eager to let them go. Part of still thinks that one day I'll have a breakthrough and actually be able to figure out how the code works. > > And there's part of me that's being tugged in the direction of an Ethernet > > Smooth Stepper and MACH3 on WIN-10 with all the issues I'm having with > the > > MESA. > > > You should do what is right for you. Nobody has any financial interest in > encouraging you to use LinuxCNC. I do wonder if this is part of the reason > that Mach does so well? There are folk making money from that > encouraging its use even for things it is not very good at (like lathes) I don't think there's any financial interest in encouraging to use MACH3 itself and it's a dead product to a certain extent although there are people using it with WIN-10. I haven't looked at MACH4 because I don't like "call home software for license permission". There is on both sides interest in selling BoBs and either USB or Ethernet to BoB implementations. Look closely at what people are using for LinuxCNC and if it's not an older PC with a parallel port it seems the only other choice is a MESA board of some flavour. And if you buy a MESA plug in card with 4 interface cards to make up your BoB then the support is probably great. For example, look at the chastising I received from the STMBL designers because I wanted step/dir support rather than LinuxCNC based MESA smart serial. That there was a large market on the Windows/Mach side was considered imaterial. Had to bite my tongue after that series of comments. So far it seems if you buy a few hundred dollars worth of MESA I/O to install into a PC that runs LinuxCNC you will have very little trouble getting LinuxCNC running. But step outside that box... I haven't given up yet. Just rather discouraged at the difficulty in doing something that is checkbox based on Windows MACH3 and requires begging the supplier for a change. John _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
