On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 at 06:44, John Dammeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. There are also the Pico cards (admittedly using the p-port, but EPP comms to an FPGA rather than bit-bashing) and General Mechatronics have quite an interesting range of LinuxCNC compatible hardware. Servo-to-Go and Motenc still work too, but are probably best considered as legacy products. 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 I don't get the impression that the STMBL guys are interested in a "market". -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
