2015-06-04 22:07 GMT+03:00 Dave Cole <[email protected]>: > > Picture this.... you have your CNC controller running in a black box > (Sandy Box.. whatever) tethered to a tablet. Your tablet screen screws > up. You grab another tablet, download the frontend app from the Apple > store or Google store, link it to the black box and you are up and > running again with a new touch screen front end.
I am more excited about the possibility of having numerous cnc machines, each doing some lengthy job (for example, 3d printer doing a 20+ hour print) and I can use one device for all GUIs (not sure if several windows simultaneously will be available, but switching between them to have one at a time is already possible, for example, start printing a long job and then switch to my router and make some chips with it). And one more thing that just occured to me - if the hardware that runs the Machinekit, is actually mounted in a cabinet and is ran headless, it means that it will not be used for web browsing, there will be no CAM app installed and there will be no other 18 things done with it, which means that it should be more stable and would require the reinstall (and time wasted on restoring configs etc) less frequently - I do not know, how do I manage to mess my PCs up when I use them. BTW no need for tethering, it is done over the [wireless] network. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
