On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 7:46 AM, andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4 June 2015 at 10:33, Mark Wendt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Neat little thing. I'm just not seeing the utility of it though. A > > separate computer that runs LinuxCNC that you can hook up to your Windows > > PC via USB? Unless I'm just completely misreading what it does. > > That seems to be the direction that Machinekit is moving in as the BBB > is a bit weak in the graphics department. > When I last looked (quite a while ago) they were working on making it > easy to run the GUI and realtime on separate hardware. > > A lot of 3D printers do the motion-control on an Arduino, so SandyBox > (and Machinekit + BBB) can be seen as an Arduino-upgrade rather than > Full-size Linux PC alternative. > > -- > atp > Sounds like they're addressing one problem by effectively creating another problem. If you need one computer to see the GUI and one for realtime effects, why not just start out with a real computer and load Linux and LinuxCNC on it? SandyBox still requires a computer that's graphics capable in order to run, so what effectively have you gained? Besides now having two computers, one without graphics and one with. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
