On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:20 AM Linden via Emc-users < emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > Any idea when the Ethernet cards will be produced and sold again?? > I just put two of them in my shopping card, only one gave the "out of stock notice" One had the female pins, the other male pins, I forget which was in stock. It SHOULD be a lot easier to make a hardware motion controller. Right now I'm working on the design of a pulse generator that makes 16 PWM outputs for a project unrelated to LCNC. But really it is the same thing, a bigger PC sends commands over a fast serial link (I'm using 1,000,000 bits per second) then the command is interpreted and a pulse generator is set up. The pulses are hardware generated by diving down a crystal oscillator. So far I have $4 worth of hardware doing this and I was able to writ the firmware in MicroPython. The pulses are don in hardware so I don't need the code to be fast. I'm using an RP2040 chip. The chip is a ddual-core 32-bit M0 ARM processor and sells for $1. There is just a ####-load of peripheral hardware on this chip and again, the price is $1. But no one is motivated because it is easier to spend $110 and buy an FPGA based one. Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
