On Monday 22 April 2013 22:15:54 Michael Haberler did opine: > Am 22.04.2013 um 18:40 schrieb Matt Shaver <[email protected]>: > > On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:30:23 +0200 > > > > Michael Haberler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We'll have a ready-to-go SD card image with xenomai, all prerequisite > >> packages and linuxcnc installed in a week or two; that will include > >> Charles' PRU stepgen and Sergey's/GP Orcullo's emcweb, and should > >> reduce the guru requirements to get things going > > > > So, I'm ordering a new Beagle Bone Black this morning & I was > > wondering what you guys are doing for a field I/O interface for this > > computer. Is there a cape I should get? Or are we at the perfboard > > and wire-wrap wire stage? :) > > yikes.. sore spot. > > Peter! get that layout editor fired up and get us a decent cape for the > bone, not that toy stuff from Adafruit ;) > > For steppers maybe Bas' > https://github.com/modmaker/BeBoPr/wiki/The-BeBoPr-Cape > > - Michael > I'm glad you said maybe. As a breakout/i/o board, it looks great, but those polulu stepper stamps aren't big enough to run anything I have at usable speeds.
Has anyone seen a price quote? Its not on the site. More, obviously, than the BeBo itself, but compact enough to make one overlook some of that. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> Windows 2000: Designed for the Internet. The Internet: Designed for UNIX. -- From a Slashdot.org post A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
