Chris, I’m going to take a look at the h-bridge board option you mentioned. This may well solve what I’m wanting trying to achieve. Thanks for the tip!
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 2:31 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Saturday 09 May 2020 12:35:35 Jon Elson wrote: > > > On 05/09/2020 01:12 AM, John Dammeyer wrote: > > > One of the greats in computer science has a series of interesting > > > quotes. https://www.azquotes.com/author/15849-Niklaus_Wirth > > > > > > One I really like is: > > > "The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and > > > programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its > > > entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single > > > individual, should probably not be built." ~ Niklaus Wirth > > > > > > I often wonder if LinuxCNC has reached this point. > > > > No, the general, overall understanding of LinuxCNC is held > > by at least several people. I know I don't > > know all areas of it well. But, the area I work in, I do > > know fairly well. People like Andy and Robert Ellenberg, as > > well as Jeff Epler and Chris Radek seem to know a LOT about > > the internals. John Kasunich built hal and interfaced it to > > the internals of the old EMC to create EMC2. So, at least > > these people really > > know it WELL. > > > > LinuxCNC has reached a point of complexity that is needed to > > do CNC tasks on a variety of CNC machine configurations. I > > do NOT think it is too complex. > > > > Jon > > I'll have to agree with this last, Jon, these guys have given us the > tools to do anything we can imagine and likely stuff we haven't dreamed > up yet, like witness Sebastian's playing around on youtube. Its a set > of tools, yes, but a set of tools the likes of which the commercial > folks are, or damned well should be, green with envy over and no doubt > are, borrowing in the long run. > > Change the compiler, and the src to do an identical job changes so much > the courts would never understand its your original code they started > with. I am proud to be witness, even as a canary in a coal mine, to > this amazing phenomenon, for nearly 2 decades now. > > But I'd also warn about all you guys getting on the same airplane too, > giving TPTB a chance to repeat the takedown that nearly killed Freescale > Semi., taking out ALL their top people in one swell foop several years > ago. That "crash", when you take a good look at it, was no accident. > > Stay well guys. Orders from Grandpa Gene. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
