On 6/4/2015 11:22 AM, [email protected] wrote: > I have wanted a two computer setup for quite a while. The idea is to > have the motion control computer on the back of the machine, so cable > runs to motors and sensors can be short. Then have the UI computer on > the front or wherever the operator needs to move it. This can be done > now by piping graphics and keyboard information between the two > computers. It seems to me that it would be more efficient to pipe just > status and UI commands. It also seems that each computer might be > optimized for their respective duties. So far, to me, the distance > between theory and practice has favored the single computer setup. > > > -- Kirk Wallace
Sounds like Mach4 with something like a smoothstepper or pokey as the motion control computer and Mach4 doing the trajectory planning and gui stuff on a 'real computer' like a PC with an ethernet connection between them. ron ginger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
