Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems and now Beagle Board

2010-09-11 Thread Jon Elson
Erik Christiansen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 06:50:42AM -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: > >> It'll be more than good enough for what I have in mind and if you get >> your RTAI, It'll do fine for EMC2 as well. >> > > Er, how'd that work? I'm having trouble finding the PCI connector for > p

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems and now Beagle Board

2010-09-11 Thread Jon Elson
Kent A. Reed wrote: > > According to an email I got from DigiKey just yesterday, the > BeagleBoard-xM I ordered a while ago has been shipped and will arrive on > my doorstep next week. > > It'll be more than good enough for what I have in mind and if you get > your RTAI, It'll do fine for EMC2 a

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems and now, Beagle Board

2010-09-11 Thread Gary P. Fiber
The Beagle Board is used by one company I know of so they can write Android software for cellphones onto until they have a working prototype to use. Many uses for a Beagle board. Gary K8IZ On 9/11/2010 8:25 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 10:23 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: >> So

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems and now, Beagle Board

2010-09-11 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 10:23 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: > So then Erik Christiansen wrote: ... snip > I figure that, since Jon is so excited about it, he sees a way to > bridge between it and the usual CNC-driver infrastructure. If he > doesn't, and nobody else figures it out either, I'll just have

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems and now Beagle Board

2010-09-11 Thread dave
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 06:50 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: > > Actually, since my project is still in an early stage of design, I > thought I'd get to know the BeagleBoard-xM by trying to compile and run > EMC2 in pure simulation mode. I'll let you (all) know how that goes. IIRC Matt Shaver did th

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems and now, Beagle Board

2010-09-11 Thread Kent A. Reed
So then Erik Christiansen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 06:50:42AM -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: >> > It'll be more than good enough for what I have in mind and if you get >> > your RTAI, It'll do fine for EMC2 as well. > Er, how'd that work? I'm having trouble finding the PCI connector for >

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems and now Beagle Board

2010-09-11 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 06:50:42AM -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: > It'll be more than good enough for what I have in mind and if you get > your RTAI, It'll do fine for EMC2 as well. Er, how'd that work? I'm having trouble finding the PCI connector for plugging in my mesa 5i20. (Or even a parport?)

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems and now Beagle Board

2010-09-11 Thread Kent A. Reed
So then Jon Elson wrote: > If you haven't seen the Beagle Board, you should look into it. The Atom > boards still > come in about 20 W, the Beagle, WITH memory, SD card for "hard drive" > etc. runs > a guaranteed max of 3W. It has USB, one serial port, XDVI and some GPIO > pins > brought out.

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems

2010-09-10 Thread Dave
The D510 board will run circles around the older single core 945GSEJT board. Plus if you run the D510 board you can make use of SMP with the new Ubuntu 10.04 software. It works very well. Jetway has a version of the D510 board that has an onboard power supply. Feed it with 12 volts DC and it

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems

2010-09-10 Thread Jon Elson
Kent A. Reed wrote: > > > You neglected to mention that this board includes one PATA port in > addition to 2 SATA ports, which covers one of Gene's wants. It DOES? I totally missed that! > Have you done any benchmarking on this board? latency test? I don't have one. My partner in this project

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems

2010-09-10 Thread Kent A. Reed
On Friday, 10 Sep 2010 12:04:54 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > Ed Nisley wrote: >> > It seems the Intel D510MO board works fine with the new >> > 10.04 SMP version of EMC2, but one must wrap a box& power >> > supply around it, then kludge up a parallel port connector. >> > >> > Does anyone have a

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems

2010-09-10 Thread Ed Nisley
> Stay away from Foxconn, > I went through three motherboards in a row That's the sort of experience I was looking for... This is surely the same Foxconn that makes all the fancy consumer electronics for all the Big Names, though. Perhaps those contracts pay for better reliability? > Since we

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems

2010-09-10 Thread Jon Elson
Ed Nisley wrote: > It seems the Intel D510MO board works fine with the new > 10.04 SMP version of EMC2, but one must wrap a box & power > supply around it, then kludge up a parallel port connector. > > Does anyone have an opinion on the $130 (+$5 shipping) > Foxconn R3-D2 (or similar) "barebones

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems

2010-09-10 Thread Gary P. Fiber
Have a look at www.mini-box.com they have Mini-ITX enclosures and 12 VDC power supplies along with the mainboards for the Mini-ITX systems. A number of my amateur radio friends use them mobile for Linux servers for Automatic Packer Reporting System and logging. Some of the mini-box cases come wit

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems

2010-09-10 Thread Peter Sharpe
On 9/10/2010 11:42 AM, Ed Nisley wrote: Stay away from Foxconn, I went through three motherboards in a row this past spring, 2010 > It seems the Intel D510MO board works fine with the new > 10.04 SMP version of EMC2, but one must wrap a box& power > supply around it, then kludge up a parallel

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems

2010-09-10 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2010/9/10 Andy Pugh : > On 10 September 2010 16:42, Ed Nisley wrote: >> >> It seems the Intel D510MO board works fine with the new >> 10.04 SMP version of EMC2, but one must wrap a box & power >> supply around it, then kludge up a parallel port connector. > > You almost certainly need a box and 12

Re: [Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems

2010-09-10 Thread Andy Pugh
On 10 September 2010 16:42, Ed Nisley wrote: > > It seems the Intel D510MO board works fine with the new > 10.04 SMP version of EMC2, but one must wrap a box & power > supply around it, then kludge up a parallel port connector. You almost certainly need a box and 12V power for any CNC system, and

[Emc-users] Speaking of Intel Atom 510 systems

2010-09-10 Thread Ed Nisley
It seems the Intel D510MO board works fine with the new 10.04 SMP version of EMC2, but one must wrap a box & power supply around it, then kludge up a parallel port connector. Does anyone have an opinion on the $130 (+$5 shipping) Foxconn R3-D2 (or similar) "barebones" system? It has an Atom 51