The rpi4 seems like it might be a good solution.. (when you absolutely need a small form factor.)
I have been testing it with the mesa 7i92 - defiantly some growing pains. (my last problem was timesyncd(default) didn't play well with realtime - ntpd did) https://youtu.be/2SEB7TuCUR0 On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:42 AM dave engvall <[email protected]> wrote: > Linuxcnc get used because it works ... at least well enough to get most > jobs done. > > I hope Gene gets something workable out of the Rpi4; that looks promising. > > My vision of a new system is something very modular. Small boards > running a microcontroller with some chance of the chip not disappearing > too soon. Maybe that means burning FPGA's for each task and hoping you > can reuse most of the code on the next gen or two. Communication between > boards via ZMQ. Use one for motion, another for task and other necessary > bits and pieces. > > Does someone have a better idea than X for the display? Has anyone > tried a browser as a GUI? > > Speaking of funding; I think the task is too big and diverse for > crowd-funding. > > If someone really wants to get radical then write a controller that is > all NURBS including the straight lines. Of course that also demands a > cheap and usable CAD/CAM. I don't think one hands codes NURBS ... ;-) > However that might take care of some of the lookahead problems. Just > dreaming. Ha! > > ......Back to resurrecting my Mazak. > > Dave > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
