We are pleased to announce the formation of the Machinekit project [1][2][3].
Machinekit is an overhaul of the real-time and glue infrastructure which supports LinuxCNC. Machinekit is intended to be broadly applicable to real-time control applications. Non-CNC systems such as general automation and robotics are potential target applications for Machinekit, as is more traditional CNC machine control. Messaging API support to enable distributed operation across a broad range of platforms including tablets, traditional desktop machines, and embedded systems has progressed considerably and shows first results [4][5][6]. Machinekit will be based on the unified-binary code from the start. The intent is to adopt innovation at a rapid pace while remaining a stable baseline, enable wider adoption by simplifying usage and the contribution process, as well as providing the lowest cost realtime control application supporting ubiquitous UI hardware. Active community involvement is a critical part of our vision for this peer project so we are adopting the Collective Code Construction Contract (C4) [7]. Our desire is to make it easy for anyone to contribute to the project and to provide objective guidelines for the acceptance and merging of changes. For an excellent discussion of the C4 contract rationale and building a community around an open source project, see Chapter 6 of the 0MQ guide [8]. Sincerely, The Machinekit team members: Michael Haberler John Morris Charles Steinkuehler Kent Reed Alexander Rössler Links: [1] Machinekit website: http://www.machinekit.io [2] Machinekit blog: http://blog.machinekit.io [3] Github repository: https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit [4] Status update: https://github.com/mhaberler/asciidoc-sandbox/wiki/statusupdate-032014 [5] Android app and Gladevcp both controlling HAL remotely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z9Cw_1hqRg [6] BeagleBone controlling 3D printer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdMcdjUPyes [7] Collective Code Construction Contract (C4): http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:22 [8] The ØMQ Community: http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:chapter6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
