On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 09:18 +0200, Roland Jollivet wrote: ... snip > So now the one half becomes a motion controller, nestled in the guts of the > machine, as it should be, and the other half can be on a boom or at a desk. > I see Kirk was going this way in 2007, but I don't know if he completed it. > So it can probably be done art the moment, but I mean doing it as a > strategy, in the sense that it becomes the norm. > > Regards > Roland
I have been arguing this point for a while now, but when it comes down to it, it's not that hard or expensive to put together a single PC system that works fine for any machine I might want to build. There really isn't a strong reason to go through the effort when a change or two to the PC hardware should make it work fine. One thing that is fairly easy to do, is run LinuxCNC from a remote PC, with VNC or an ssh/X session. This way the LinuxCNC PC can be in the machine's electronics cabinet and the user interface PC in front of the machine, or additionally in your office. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users