Re: [Machinekit] Advice for BBB breakout for Taig Micromill

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On 19/04/17 14:19, Sigurður Ásgeirsson wrote: If I never see another beige box x86 PC, it'll be too soon :). From what I understand, you also want a fairly dated computer.................. Other colours are available,and that is why they are cheap :-) The market is awash with dual core pentiums from the corporate upgrade cycles, which cost less than a bare BBB. Throw in a Mesa 5i25 and you have unbeatable hardware stepping and encoders, plus a machine with good graphics and a lot of memory (standard is about 4GB RAM and 80 - 250 GB HDD compared to 512MB RAM and 4GB eMMC on a BBB) >> I'm no expert, and I'm hoping not to become one. If you go down the BBB route you will need to learn stuff too :-)   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? That is true for the BBB at least, if you don't expect to much. However when you start connecting a monitor and keyboard and DB25 cable to it, you lose the only usefulness I can see, its small size and ability to build it in to a machine. Just pointing out other options exist. -- 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 machinekit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 machinekit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.