Danny, Go to the Google group machinekit is where most of the info is Sarah
Sent from BlueMail On 19 Oct 2016, 18:44, at 18:44, dan...@austin.rr.com wrote: > >http://www.machinekit.io/ > >Anybody familiar with this? Got a friend who wants to put it on a >BeagleBone Black. LinuxCNC run onboard a Cortex A8 directly and the >HDMI monitor, keyboard, mouse etc plug straight into that, not just >acting as a motion controller from a remote PC. > >Notable benefit would seem to be that the IO is very low-latency >without a motion controller card, and the architecture is 100% >consistent, as opposed the latency lottery that is picking a PC and its >MB chipset and seeing how it works. > >BBB does have 2x 46 pin IO headers. I'm not sure if all pins can be >assigned arbitrary HW functions, but it sounds like plenty anyhow. > >He asked me about it and all I can do so far is say "hmm". The >Machinekit website is pretty sparse. > >Danny > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
