Re: [Machinekit] Seeed to design and build Machinekit focused Cape for BeagleBone Black/AI

2020-06-10 Thread Chris Albertson
I have a real engineering question. In real life, is the redundant path actually used? If I owned a system that had a redundant path, I would place an alarm on the backup path and treat its use as a system failure. Maybe we finish the current operation while in alarm state but this is not the n

Re: [Machinekit] Seeed to design and build Machinekit focused Cape for BeagleBone Black/AI

2020-06-10 Thread Bas de Bruijn
> On 9 Jun 2020, at 23:51, Stephen Bell wrote: > >  > The BBB would be the master for my use case, with devices such as servomotor > drivers as slaves in a dual-redundant topology. I use the BBB Wireless, and > thus don't have the onboard RJ-45. If you want the bus to be redundant, the mas

Re: [Machinekit] Seeed to design and build Machinekit focused Cape for BeagleBone Black/AI

2020-06-10 Thread Juha Heikkilä
Hello, Sorry if I came out rude, that was not my intention. As for BBB and EtherCat, if you use the ”standard” one with a LAN port you dont need a cape at all, assuming that you would be able to sacrifice the ring topology. Running it headless and using a usb wlan, you would be able to keep the “