With rt_preempt realtime - I have had pretty good luck with laptops.. (although the one I have in that video is probably the worse one I have found so far.. - it runs a 500hz thread 'ok') my previous laptop ran 1khz no problem.
sam On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:56 AM Rafael Skodlar <ra...@linwin.com> wrote: > On 4/9/19 6:09 AM, Sam Sokolik wrote: > > STMBL amps are really quite cool.... > > > > Me playing with one as a spindle drive.. > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LAtx8o48jI > > > > Impressive Sam. Added a brownie point to your video. It would be nice to > see the block diagram of your setup. What impressed me is the fact that > you are using a Dell laptop with LinuxCNC. This is exactly what I had in > mind when I started a discussion about problems with looking for a > motherboard that will run RT kernel many weeks ago. Precise timing > should be offloaded to microcontrollers then any PC could run LinuxCNC > frontend. > > I have no problem with somebody making $$$ when they make a line of > products that can handle different work environments from hobby to large > production sizes. As long as some of it is open source and agreed on > communication standards or protocols then competition takes care of the > rest of it; marketing, options development, advertising, support. > > Looking for more details about your setup ;-) > > -- > Rafael Skodlar > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
