On 4/19/2017 8:19 AM, Sigurður Ásgeirsson wrote: > > The BBB has HDMI out and a USB port. I'm pretty sure I've seen monitors & > keyboards hooked up to them with LinuxCNC/Machinekit running on them?
I use the BBB as a "standard" computer with KB/Mouse via USB and HDMI out to a normal computer monitor (or sometimes a small LCD panel, but they are hard on my old eyes). The problem is the BBB doesn't have (working) GPU support, so the display performance is pretty dismal. If you disable the 3D preview window it works much better, and performance is acceptable (to me, anyway). IMHO if you go with a PC, get something newer and throw in a Mesa card for the step pulse generation. You get awesome performance and you can run on modern hardware with either a Xenomai or PREEMPT-RT kernel. RTAI and "legacy" hardware is really only needed if you want to do software step generation and need the absolute lowest IRQ latency and jitter. > Looks like perhaps the Xylotex BBB_IDC26_26 > <http://xylotex.netfirms.com/OSCommerce/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=117&osCsid=02d8976524cba9afc29279c2026395ad> > would > do for me, though I'd need to break the second IDC26 connector out to > something > more comfortable? That would be a good board. All the boards I know about are listed on this page: http://blog.machinekit.io/p/hardware-capes.html -- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected] -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
