I've been thinking about working on moving my machine project over to MK from LinuxCNCfor a while now. Mostly for the ARM/remote interface abillity. It's a pretty crazy implementation of LinuxCNC so it wouldn't be any small task (custom UI, lots of Python code, custom HAL component.. Biggest issue (other than time) is trying to locate info on specific things.
Right now I like the idea of running the Machine client/ HAL side on something like a DE0 Nano and my interface side on a stronger multicore ARM board. The machine is based around Machine Vision camera's and CPU gets hit hard enough to effect latency's unless it's a pretty strong X86 processor. The remote interface thing would get around that because the cameras would be connected to the interface side. I have a bunch of info to try to wade through before I take that side project on but the hardware side is what I want to get a grip on first. I see that it looks like the common use for a DE0 is to use mksoc which is based on Mesa firmware and there's a DB25 interface board. Is there any pinout info of the board itself with this firmware? I'd likely whip up my own interface board for the GPIO I need. -- 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.
