There is good reason to think that it one day could outperform LinucCNC. But the project is not yet as mature as the Linux CNC project. The Machinekit design is certainly more modern.
The question is do you want to be on the cutting edge of development or do you just want to make parts on your mill? This is a real question as some people just like building tools and don't make their living with their mill. There is no reason not to pursue BOTH. Most of your investment in time and money is the stepper or servo motors, and their drivers and power supply. The difference of a dumpster-salvaged PC or a $40 ARM board is not much. Do both. Linux CNC has the advantage of maturity and I'd say that today it is the safe choice but Machine Kit has potential. I'd say do both and decide later Certainly in the future it will become very hard to find desktop PC systems that are suitable without going to a landfill and digging one up. I'd say this might happen in 10 years On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:39 AM, <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
