On 10/1/2022 4:55 PM, emc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
Message: 1 Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 09:23:44 -0500 From: Thaddeus Waldner<thadw...@gmail.com> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Emc-users] Intel NUC Message-ID:<fbfd8222-20f5-4b8b-bf11-e21ff25f0...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8Hi, I am looking for a viable alternative to the Raspberry Pi. I need this to fit inside a pretty small enclosure, so I can?t accommodate a much larger size than the Pi. Has anyone tried the Intel NUK products?
Thaddeus - I use them all the time; I have about 150 of them (with large touchscreens) deployed in place of ipads for public kiosks.
I also use them for LCNC; their best features are typically removable PCIe wireless cards and real SATA interfaces. I stay with wired network (machine LAN such as MESA cards are on the native eth port) and comms LAN (internet, data servers, etc are on a USB-ETH adapter). The wireless chipset is random based on the platform, and sometime drivers don't work.
The biggest problems I've had is that if it was prior-installed with a WIN environment, wiping the drive and simply installing LCNC from usb will not yield all the USB ports active - so you have to go hunting through the BIOS to manually enable those. It is quite happy in UEFI mode or legacy mode, your choice.
I *prefer* to stick with the core i7 units, but I do have a couple of i5 and (Beelink? amd and rockchip) units also doing the same, just with a slightly lower response. Servo performance is quite acceptable, jitter is all over the map, so of course testing in your use case is warranted. I also stay clear of any that have dual HDMI ports - they seem to fail at the hardware level more often (irregardless of the OS that's running on them.) I don't use them for software stepping, so cannot speak on that particular topic.
Worst part is dealing with the 19v power supply - they are often intolerant of anything but their own power bricks.
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