Re: [Emc-users] Dedicated Processor hardware for LinuxCNC

On 2/18/19 5:00 PM, Greg Bentzinger via Emc-users wrote: ( Greg ) Every kid would love to ask for a pony, if they thought they could get it they would ask for a unicorn. Reality however usually proves this to be impractical to impossible. Everything is changing today at a hyper accelerated

Re: [Emc-users] Easy use of a 2 line URL [Was: Re: DIY CNC builder dilemma, open request for comments

On 18.02.19 22:47, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Already set true here Erik. Next? ;-) And it didn't take the lumpy URL when pasted whack in the middle of the screen? (Dunno that I have any other magic settings. That one works here.) Erik ___ Emc-users

Re: [Emc-users] Easy use of a 2 line URL [Was: Re: DIY CNC builder dilemma, open request for comments

On Monday 18 February 2019 21:55:06 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 18.02.19 16:52, Gene Heskett wrote: > > unforch, John, you did not surround this link with a pair of<> which > > would have preserved its validity even if it had been 2k chars long, > > but alibaba, rather than leaving half of it

Re: [Emc-users] New problem, how best to solve?

On Monday 18 February 2019 20:50:10 Ken Strauss wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@shentel.net] > > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2019 7:20 PM > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] New problem, how best to solve? > > > > On

[Emc-users] Easy use of a 2 line URL [Was: Re: DIY CNC builder dilemma, open request for comments

On 18.02.19 16:52, Gene Heskett wrote: > unforch, John, you did not surround this link with a pair of<> which > would have preserved its validity even if it had been 2k chars long, but > alibaba, rather than leaving half of it displayed so we can manually > copy/paste the rest of it, has to be

Re: [Emc-users] Dedicated Processor hardware for LinuxCNC

On Monday 18 February 2019 20:00:21 Greg Bentzinger via Emc-users wrote: > ( Greg ) > Every kid would love to ask for a pony, if they thought they could get > it they would ask for a unicorn. Reality however usually proves this > to be impractical to impossible. Everything is changing today at a

Re: [Emc-users] DIY CNC builder dilemma, open request for comments

On Monday 18 February 2019 17:07:14 John Dammeyer wrote: > Let's try this then. > > Then there is the Far East solutions like the one in this link. > is_603 43603384.html?spm=a2700.7724857.normalList.37.3701292eTmjk5p> > >

Re: [Emc-users] New problem, how best to solve?

> -Original Message- > From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@shentel.net] > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2019 7:20 PM > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] New problem, how best to solve? > > On Monday 18 February 2019 16:56:38 jrmitchellj wrote: > > > Hey Gene, If

[Emc-users] Dedicated Processor hardware for LinuxCNC

( Greg ) Every kid would love to ask for a pony, if they thought they could get it they would ask for a unicorn. Reality however usually proves this to be impractical to impossible. Everything is changing today at a hyper accelerated pace. Back in the day Motorola produced the 68000 CPU, it was

Re: [Emc-users] New problem, how best to solve?

On Monday 18 February 2019 16:56:38 jrmitchellj wrote: > Hey Gene, If you were so inclined to make your own touch probe, there > is an article in the winter 2011 edition of Digital Machinist that > describes a construction project. > If interested, send your email address to me, and I will send

Re: [Emc-users] DIY CNC builder dilemma, open request for comments

I'm glad there are fully integrated CNC control packages for those who want to go that route, but I greatly prefer LinuxCNC for two major reasons. 1)  I control the entire design, making the design choices that make sense for me on each machine.  I generally prefer to spend a few more dollars on

Re: [Emc-users] DIY CNC builder dilemma, open request for comments

I still had to edit the text into one line However if you google this: " ? alibaba Low-cost-New-Product-3Axis-> 4Axis " it will bring up the link. Point is that for $1500 you get a CNC controller ready to go. For $800 Alibaba lists "Cheap 3 axis CNC milling center CNC controller" The drawing

Re: [Emc-users] DIY CNC builder dilemma, open request for comments

Let's try this then. Then there is the Far East solutions like the one in this link. John Dammeyer ___

Re: [Emc-users] New problem, how best to solve?

Hey Gene, If you were so inclined to make your own touch probe, there is an article in the winter 2011 edition of Digital Machinist that describes a construction project. If interested, send your email address to me, and I will send more information. --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com

Re: [Emc-users] DIY CNC builder dilemma, open request for comments

On Monday 18 February 2019 14:11:38 John Dammeyer wrote: > > However, I started to wonder last year what's the future of > > LinuxCNC? What concerns me most is the computing part mainly based > > on silly old PC architecture from the 80's. Using PCs for that > > purpose made sense in the early

Re: [Emc-users] DIY CNC builder dilemma, open request for comments

> However, I started to wonder last year what's the future of LinuxCNC? > What concerns me most is the computing part mainly based on silly old PC > architecture from the 80's. Using PCs for that purpose made sense in the > early 1990s to about 2010 but now it's time to move on IMO. I don't see >

Re: [Emc-users] New problem, how best to solve?

On Monday 18 February 2019 05:53:31 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 18 February 2019 02:31:46 jrmitchellj wrote: > > Perhaps victims of the Trump tariffs! > > > > --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. > > jrmitche...@gmail.com I've not seen anything thats blaming that BS yet... But I did note that one opto

Re: [Emc-users] DIY CNC builder dilemma, open request for comments

On 02/18/2019 10:58 AM, Rafael Skodlar wrote: However, I started to wonder last year what's the future of LinuxCNC? What concerns me most is the computing part mainly based on silly old PC architecture from the 80's. Using PCs for that purpose made sense in the early 1990s to about 2010

[Emc-users] DIY CNC builder dilemma, open request for comments

Hi everybody, I'm following this mailing list for a number of years with one year interruption during kitchen remodeling and unplanned medical leave last year. First annoyance was subscribing again to post to the list. Now I'm getting two copies of each email. Having experience with

Re: [Emc-users] New problem, how best to solve?

On Monday 18 February 2019 02:31:46 jrmitchellj wrote: > Perhaps victims of the Trump tariffs! > > --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. > jrmitche...@gmail.com > > > > "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that > created it"Albert Einstein > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 4:00 PM Gene