Marcin,
I found your Factor E project very interesting and hope to contribute.
For the control, you might wish to investigate the use of a thin client
which is a diskless, lightweight computer intended mainly for web surfing.
I've been playing around with the Netier XL1000; see:
Fenn,
Thanks for these hints, looks like we have a solution!
I'm definitely interested in working out the Netier XL1000.
I have not investigated homebrew servos. I would like to talk about that in
more detail.
Perhaps we can talk more directly offline, or phone, or Skype. Please send
me your
Dear Group,
It appears that it's best for me not to attempt EMC with a laptap. I'll dry
a desktop.
I would like to compose my own desktop EMC PC to run the acetylene torch
that I am working on.
Can someone suggest a set of proven components to make this work? I'm
looking for a good price, and
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Hardware_Requirements
--- Marcin Jakubowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Group,
It appears that it's best for me not to attempt EMC with a
laptap. I'll dry
a desktop.
I would like to compose my own desktop EMC PC to run the
acetylene torch
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 01:20:34PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I have a milling machine here which i want to control with emc. Fo the
first tests im using the normal parallel port adapter. I'm, however,
afraid of loosing steps on my stepping motors so im planing to use some
quadratur
Jeff Epler wrote:
No USB hardware is supported by emc at this time.
The card implements the USB CDC class (it lookes like a serial card to
the operating system with the usbserial modul). So i thought since
serial connection can be used it would also be possible to use the USB
counterpart.
I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I already looked at the emc2/src/hal/drivers directory out i only found
functions which write directly to a set of i/o pins. Isn't there any
function/example to directly write a speed or number of step ticks with
a frequency?
Well, you could look at the hal_ppmc.c
Jon Elson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I already looked at the emc2/src/hal/drivers directory out i only found
functions which write directly to a set of i/o pins. Isn't there any
function/example to directly write a speed or number of step ticks with
a frequency?
Well, you could look
