-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/24/2013 10:42 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > My first reaction is how could this be necessary? Are they not > wanting/able to capture a file to feed to the control? I am having > trouble imagining a computer so small or a program so large as to > need drip feed.
The typical control for a 3D printer is based on an Arduino, which is a computer about as powerful as what might be in your dishwasher. It's an 8-bit micro-controller with tens of K of memory. On the whole, it's got about as much horsepower as an _original_ IBM PC. ...and the first question I get from most 3D printer folks is how to make LinuxCNC drop in to this setup which was only necessary because of the extreme resource constraints...which is what I switched to LinuxCNC to get away from. <sigh> Anyway, that's why the 3D printer crowd is doing "drip feed". - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHIcAEACgkQLywbqEHdNFwl4wCgtmA0XWozfLdpYYEmu3yO5cUE GyQAn1BOon01fhNpcrgFbGzaC+kiXHBz =ijr0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
