Hey Folks,
I am a newbie starting to look at this - I want a small CNC lathe (and later
on a mill) for hobby use. I do have some items which would not be practical
to do on a manual setup. I am looking hard at sherlines package, which seems
to be hard to beat priceswise, and I have found no other CNC equipped
benchtop mini-lathe (i.e. less than 100 pounds) for a reasonable price.
(MaxNC has one, but it has no tailstock)
The sherline package uses EMC.
The difficulty is I do not have nor do I want a large box computer. I do
have an older g4 Powerbook. From what I have read, it is possible to get
Ubuntu running on a PowerPC mac. And hence presumable I can get EMC running
on it, right ? (I know, I can try that for free - and will)
If so, then comes the next question - the Powerbook is laptop. No parallel
port. I can get a PCMCIA card which adds a parallel port. Will that work
with EMC ? (I cannot try this without spending money - lots of it). Has
anyone managed to run EMC over a PCMCIA card parallel port, even on a intel
machine ?
(A related question would be - can I get EMC running natively on OSX, which
is basically unix at heart. But that involves downloading source etc - and
is more involved than I wish to get for now. I do know that OS X supports
Python.)
If anyone has fooled about with trying to run a CNC machine on a powerpc or
intel based Mac, I would be happy to hear any advice you have.
Best regards
-Steve Wintner
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of
those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too
little." - FDR
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