2013/4/19 Michael Haberler <mai...@mah.priv.at> > > The information on ARM ports is atm bit littered over the emc-developers > mailing list, which I suggest to read back to last fall, and several Wiki > entries: > > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BeagleboneDevsetup > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?NewRTInstall > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RaspbianXenomaiBuild > > Thanks! I started reading, and run into boot from NFS server. Not that I can't do that, but looks inconvenient. Any other options for boot drive? Faster SD card, USB HDD or flash drive?
> What is recommended board to play with? > > my personal recommendation would be the new 'black' Beaglebone board about > to come out - umph and I/O capabilities leave the Raspberry in the dust > (which I think is a totally overhyped platform; it does have a decent > package stream but thats about all of the upside I could think of relative > to the BB for LinuxCNC purposes) > > the advantage of the black BB over the current one is - it has on-board > HDMI and more memory > > I had no chance to build on the black BB since it isnt out yet but I dont > expect any surprises except maybe for OpenGL support being a bit bumpy to > start with > > the concept of glueing an Arduino to an ARM core is basically shmoozing up > to the popularity of the Arduino and trying to get some marketing uplift > from there; in terms of architectural wisdom and usefulneess I think it's > obtuse BS that wont get any traction. > Black Beaglebone is scheduled for May, I hope to acquire it this summer. Though with TFT touchscreen it's not that cheap, but with 200kHz step rate I hope to skip MESA board. Is it possible to connect encoders directly to BB? Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
