Re: [Emc-users] Open source CNC architecture - open source complexity OT, more off it

2020-02-17 Thread N
> Some colleges and universities offer many online courses for free or very low > cost. The online course materials are identical to what's used in the classes > at the schools, and lectures are either recorded from actual classes or are > the same material the professors present to a class.

Re: [Emc-users] Open source CNC architecture - open source complexity OT, more off it

2020-02-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
Some colleges and universities offer many online courses for free or very low cost. The online course materials are identical to what's used in the classes at the schools, and lectures are either recorded from actual classes or are the same material the professors present to a class. For some

Re: [Emc-users] Open source CNC architecture - open source complexity OT, more off it

2020-02-16 Thread N
> > There are plenty and quite many scientific articles available for free on > > Internet. Universities at least have some check, quite often a written Exam > > before course could be passed, a little hard to check what kind of > > books/articles someone have read and even more so what they

Re: [Emc-users] Open source CNC architecture - open source complexity OT, more off it

2020-02-16 Thread Les Newell
There are plenty and quite many scientific articles available for free on Internet. Universities at least have some check, quite often a written Exam before course could be passed, a little hard to check what kind of books/articles someone have read and even more so what they might have

Re: [Emc-users] Open source CNC architecture - open source complexity OT, more off it

2020-02-16 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
> > If it were true then Universities and schools wouldn't exist. After all > > everything taught in school is a "Google search away". > > There are a lot of extremely knowledgeable people out there with little > formal education. Had a cheap farmer as project leader at my workplace, that's

Re: [Emc-users] Open source CNC architecture - open source complexity

2020-02-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 February 2020 15:07:00 Les Newell wrote: [...] We pretty muh agree to here, Les. > > So open source is truly open source but I'll bet 95% of the members > > on this forum haven't a clue what Gene or Thomas means when they > > post how they are rebuilding the kernel for a

Re: [Emc-users] Open source CNC architecture - open source complexity

2020-02-15 Thread Les Newell
If it were true then Universities and schools wouldn't exist. After all everything taught in school is a "Google search away". There are a lot of extremely knowledgeable people out there with little formal education. Universities and schools  are not the only way to learn. They make

Re: [Emc-users] Open source CNC architecture - open source complexity

2020-02-15 Thread John Dammeyer
> If you really want to know the information is a Google search away. If > you put in the time to learn this stuff you will end up knowing how to > do it. Gene is not an experienced Linux kernel developer. He started off > knowing little about what was needed but was willing to put in the time >

Re: [Emc-users] Open source CNC architecture - open source complexity

2020-02-15 Thread Les Newell
What exactly is open source? In a way it's LinuxCNC but only a few guru's really understand what is happening under the covers because it's so incredibly powerful.The MESA cards can be modified since much of the FPGA information is published. But unlike MACH3 where a simple checkbox