Hi,
I am new to MachineKit and LinuxCNC, I am looking to control a machine which has 8 axes (for a 3D printer). I am struggling to find information about how I can interface with the variety of motors that will be used in the machine, and whether I should use a BBB cape or PC with MESA board. The motors to be controlled are Brushless Maxon Motors Controlled by Maxon EPOS4 controllers (which can interface through RS232, USB 2.0, CanOpen and accept position or velocity or step/direction commands) Dynamixel actuators (which can interface through USB or RS485 and accept position or velocity commands) and Stepper motor driver (Step/dir or USB). I would really appreciate any advice on whether these types of hardware interfaces may work with machinekit/HAL and whether they have been done before. If all my motor controller can be controlled via USB 2.0 could an AMD64 be used without a MESA board? Or if you have any other thoughts about what boards to use that would be great. Maxon EPOS4: https://www.maxonmotor.com.au/medias/sys_master/root/8827037548574/17-EN-439-440-442..pdf Dynamixel XM430-350R http://www.robotis.us/dynamixel-xm430-w350-r/ Stepper Driver: https://www.pololu.com/product/3131 Cheers, Lewis -- 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.
