Serial is a nogo with realtime in EMC Having said that, depending upon your budget, you could through the existing controller away (and/or ebay it) and pick up a stepper controller that would allow you to run the mill through the parrallel port (cheap) or using an FPGA board (less cheap).
for a 4 axis setup, there are DIY kits for under $150, less for 3 axis. The FPGA baords are a bit more but offer a world of other possibilities and they do not need to be assembled. Look in the Linuxcnc wiki and search for supported hardware. It should be very easy to convert these over to modern controls with the existing motors. good luck. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
