On Wednesday 16 October 2013 13:40:05 Dave Cole did opine: > Sure Mach3 can have hardware issues also.. that is well documented. > The usual solution is to use a different PC motherboard, which is pretty > much what the LinuxCNC guys end up doing also. Mach3 is not > recommended for laptops since their power saving "features" often screw > things up. > > I chatted with Brian Barker of Artsoft/Mach3 fame recently and he told > me that the new Mach4 software is cross platform compatible and they are > planning on being able to run it on Linux and dedicated hardware like > the Beagle Bone.. So smart move.. and I stand corrected. He is still > working on Mach4 vigorously. > > Has anyone heard of any new Intel Mini ITX board announcements? I > thought that Intel was going to release some new Mini ITX boards either > this fall or next Spring that did away with the VR video chips that have > caused so many problems for Linux and were only Windows 7/8 compatible. > > The CPUs are on this list -- at the bottom and show a release date of > 4th quarter, 2013 - NOW! > http://ark.intel.com/products/family/29035 > > They use Intel HD graphics which should fix a lot of things for Linux > users ... I hope! > > Dave
The one item I take note of is that there are no parportson these next gen boards, so in addition to the correct psu, one would need to buy a parport card in pci-e format, so the bottom line for the $51 board is still pushing the $100 area by the time its actually moving motors. It seems to me that more of the effort s/b directed at BBB development. I am eagerly awaiting an i/o cape that either duplicates the parport (less desirable though as thats an artificial line number restriction), or perhaps even better, replaces my C1G breakouts, hopefully having the opto buffering and tally leds that it (the C1G) has. Only more of them because the BBB has more and can do more things if the constraints of the db25 are removed. Nother Subject: There is an old Porter lathe, probably dating to around 1900, presently sitting out in the weather, no motor, well rusted ways, about a 12 or 14" obviously much newer 4 jaw chuck, about a 6 or 7 foot bed, no change gears either. Lantern style tool post is there, but its WYSIWYG. Guy wants $500 for it, and I'd have to find a motor, replace the screws with ball screws and rig some big steppers to run them with LCNC. Question is, is it worth $20 for the cast iron, or worth making a counteroffer on? It looks like its solid, but even more work than Andy's Rivet to get it throwing swarf again. > On 10/16/2013 9:39 AM, Eric Keller wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Dr.Mclem <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Mach3 gives the impression it will run on any motherboard and it not > >> clear to new users what advantage if anything the rt kernel gives > >> for that uncertainty. > > > > I can't imagine that Mach doesn't have the same problems as linuxcnc > > with hardware, it's just that most naive users have step/dir hardware > > so they don't really see the glitches. Unless they miss steps. But > > then it's blamed on settings. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- 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=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg. > > clktrk _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ 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=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.cl > ktrk _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users 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) It's better to be wanted for murder that not to be wanted at all. -- Marty Winch A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
