I was in a discussion with a friend about CNC systems. He's acquired a MASSO box and commented on the superb documentation compared to his UCCNC system for his router.
My comment was that a standard PC or Raspberry Pi4 (Pi5?) and a MESA Ethernet Interface like a 7i95 at the lowest level will run simple CNC machines like CNC routers without fancy tool changers etc. And I reminded him that the FPGA's on the MESA products have open source configuration. The question asked was, and I didn't have an answer, how open source are they really? If someone wanted to do their own PC board layout could they build an equivalent 7i92H or is there still stuff that's proprietary? The rest of LinuxCNC is all open. May be a mine field of very confusing and difficult to understand information but it's there for the people who know. Nice as MASSO looks or some other systems I prefer the MESA and PC (or Pi4/5) solution. But how does one justify a LinuxCNC solution for a simple CNC system. Not a major overhaul of old iron that gets the old paper tape stuff thrown out. But a brand new mill from the far east that is retrofitted with inexpensive AC Servos? John _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
