Hi Gene, > Thats a pretty tall order, John, and we both know it. Looking at the > various *-pi's, some of which are actually driving machines quite well, > some may not think these are a pc, but despite their credit card size, > they ARE a pc. I don't know exactly what Bari is doing with his *.pi, > but if you take inventory of everything I am doing with this rpi4, I > think most will be impressed. I'd go so far as to say amazed. Cutting > air making 50 copies of the chess pawn with that rpi4, I went online > with firefox, fully expecting to see it screwing with my exercise, but > in an hours worth of browsing the network news sites, I did not detect a > single instance of the lathe stalling. > > So the next thing is to establish just exactly what is wrong with > linuxcnc running on some flavor of processor which is running linux that > may have been compiled using the linux tools of that processor family. > > So lets see if a waterproof argument can be made.
Couple of simple questions for you Gene. 1. Photo of your Pi setup please so we can see how tiny your setup really is. 2. The Pi doesn’t have enough hardware I/O to directly do CNC with 5 Axis along with MPGs and Spindle Encoder so how are you interfacing to your motors? John Dammeyer _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
