Hi Lester, Perhaps that's why I see such potential with MachineKit on the Beagle. As I understand it the infrastructure is already in place for full CNC control with the two PRUs doing the bulk of the high speed motion control. The need for yet another product attached to it to do that isn't needed IMHO. If it were, it would be a cape for the Beagle or a Hat for the Pi serving as the integrated BoB.
But what I've seen so far with the Beagle running MachineKit is that it has the potential to do what _many_ people would want out of their home hobby mill. I'd never suggest that the BB should replace a full PC with all the extra bells and whistles that add on cards provide. And if none of this works out, the mechanics are still in place for standard LinuxCNC. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Lester Caine [mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk] > Sent: October-08-17 4:39 AM > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] MachineKit on the BeagleBone Black > > On 08/10/17 10:43, Marcus Bowman wrote: > > I see other boards being sold as complete all-on-the-board solutions. > There are a number of more than capable mill solutions.It's adding the > turn functions with a multi slot sensor on the chuck which are less > prevalent? > > > I guess the challenge for some of them will be the on-going support and > development. > Which is where I see LinuxCNC as a better base even for stand alone > machine controllers rather than relying on third party code for that > area. PoKeys57CNC looks like a very tidy package but I'm not ready to > commit to Mach4 and that is the only way to use it for a fully > functional lathe :( > > Anybody looked at LinuxCNC on that :) > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > 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
