The kflop looks interesting... But again - you are stuck with what bells and whistles are programed into it. Plus for the mach people that say you need to be a programmer to run linuxcnc - How about this quote from kflop...
http://www.dynomotion.com/faq.html -Do I need to be a C Programmer to use your Controller? Yes. Certain operations such as Controller initialization and Homing involve User C Programs that Execute in KFLOP. So some modification of C Programs is required. We do this because it is the most powerful and flexible approach. It isn't necessary to be a C expert, but basic programming knowledge is helpful. Download the software and go to the C Programs Screen to get an idea the level of difficulty. Hmmm - I don't have to 'program' in linuxcnc unless I am doing very very advanced things... Plus everything is configured in one place. sam On 10/9/2012 7:58 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 9 October 2012 12:52, Ron Ginger <rongin...@roadrunner.com> wrote: > >> Why are some people so hung up on the idea that one box (even a box full >> of micros) must be used as the machine control? > That is what EMC was conceived as. The whole underlying idea was to > use cheap, off the shelf, PC hardware for machine control, rather than > use expensive dedicated hardware. > >> With low cost motion devices like smoothstepper, pokeys, > A Smoothstepper is considerably more expensive than a cheap PC, and > can only do one thing. > As far as I know a Pokeys isn't a real-time motion control device at > all, but a USB HID device? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
