I'm running an emco pc turn 55 with a pi just because I could. It's not the ideal, but at the time, it was a cheap solution that could be harnessed to get people away from trying to run machines on an Arduino. Lately, however, the price and availability have become crazy, so I found the GK41 mini pc with j4125 quad core Celeron, 8gb ram and 128gb ssd to be a pretty good platform - for now, anyway. Time will tell.
Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengineer Order one of the coolest label makers on the market at http://labelworks.epson.com, use coupon code "theferalengineer" and receive 20% off of your order 🙂 On Fri, Jul 1, 2022, 12:53 PM Chris Albertson <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem was using the Pi4 as a *development system*. This means > continuous code changes, use of Git and text edits every day for hours. > Simply using LCNC is nothing like that. > > That said. I don't see the point of using a Pi4 as an LCNC controller? > The Pi4 is great and hard to beat if you need a computer to take up > little space and use little power or even run on battery power. I have a > Pi4 right here on my desk inside a robot as the robot has very limited > space and power available. But in the shop, next to the mill and 3D > printer is an Intel i5 with 16GB RAM and an actual spinning disk drive (it > also happens to be connected to the same file server as the pi4). > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 9:04 AM John Dammeyer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Chris, > > I like that idea but the if you are using an Ethernet Based MESA 7i92 > then > > the Ethernet port should not really be shared with the rest of the > system. > > > > Ideally then for the rest of the system there should be a USB 3.0 to > > Ethernet Dongle. Or perhaps a SPI bus to Ethernet dongle since none of > > the standard pins on the Pi4 are being used. > > > > Any suggestions on which would be best? > > > > Thanks > > John > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Chris Albertson [mailto:[email protected]] > > > I solved this problem (using Pi4 as a development system) by placing > all > > my > > > files on a file server. Development systems see near constant > > re-compiles > > > and write to log files, source code edits and backups and so on. The > > > networking on the Pi4 is pretty fast, or "fast" compared to an SD card. > > > The File Server is connected to a backup system that does a > > > continuous real-time sync. This means that if the server explodes I > > > lose only a few minutes of work. > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > -- > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
