On 10/10/2013 8:55 AM, Russell Brown wrote: > FWIW, I was intrigued and bought a BBB to play with. > > I didn't end up using it for my Mill CNC project as I couldn't find any > concise documentation on how you actually connected the BBB to motors > and switches (I'm a programmer of business systems by trade and know > naff all about CNC or electronics). > > Did I need a cape? Could I just connect to conventional drivers like a > parallel port? Do I need to solder wires on or is there a screw type > connector that fits the sockets? It wasn't obvious. > > I guess this info probably does exist but I couldn't find it via Google > at the time. > > Perhaps a blow by blow blog/project might help others who are looking.
The BeagleBone stuff is still developing. You basically needed a cape that at the time didn't exist, a "BBB to parallel-port" cape like this one: http://www.buildlog.net/blog/2013/09/cnc-translator-for-beaglebone/ For many uses, you could just replace this with jumper wires to the BBB headers, or directly solder wires to a prototype cape, but neither of these is attactive or at all like an "appliance" application. Stay tuned... -- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
