> I have seen and run machinekit, it is linuxcnc. I have also read about > BeagleBone. There are plenty of devices suitable to generate the pulses but > at which rate should pulses generated? Constant acceleration between > different speeds?
Your questions can't be answered in simple emails. If you decide you want to "roll your own" be prepared to spend a lot of time creating the tool as opposed to buying the tool and spending time using it. If you're ready to write software to make motors move then you're also ready to take a Beagle and the MachineKit LinuxCNC source and make it do what you want for less money than buying a couple of stepper drivers and connecting to something. If you have experience with Arduino then buy a 3D printer board and tear into the Replicape software. They have everything you need if you want to re-invent the wheel rather than ride on the wagon. John Dammeyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785231&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
