On Thursday 17 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >Philipp Überbacher wrote: >> Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 01:32:00 +0200: >>> On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Philipp Überbacher wrote: >>>> Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 00:45:14 +0200: >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> I fear something named simply 'emc' isn't easy to find around the net. >>> >>> Try >>> <http://www.linuxcnc.org/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-emc2-aj07-i386.iso> >>> >>> >>> --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say >> >> Thanks, I found it eventually (I'm really bad at using search engines). >> Quite interesting, it uses a RTAI patched kernel. I also read this has a >> module to disable SMIs, which is kind of hard to believe.. >> >> At my school we transfered the CAD files per floppy to a DOS box that >> controlled the CNC machine, guess that's for the same reason, bad rt >> capabilities of newer OSes and machines. > >Never ever! I bet the DOS machine 'controls' micro controllers used by >the CNC machine. Imagine a conical object where you wish to engrave a >word in a reasonable time. Have fun using my computer + a Linux kernel >rt (or any windows rt) to do this ;).
Chuckle. We have SW that can take your name, wrap it around a beer can sized object, and once the code is correct, carve your name on that cylinder in maybe a minute. That would take a machine setup with 4 axis control, which mine is. And all 4 axis motors are controlled by step and direction controls over a single parport. Using xylotex motor drivers. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) *** Knghtbrd is now known as SirKewLDooD *** Mercury kicked SirKewlDooD from #quakeforge (*WHACK*) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
