On Monday 27 January 2020 11:39:27 dave engvall 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.
All I can say is download it, install it and try it. Its working great here with rpspi.ko into a 7i90HD and a triplet of 7i42TA's which make the wiring a piece of cake. > 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? Too laggy unless your net is 10Gbit. > 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 ... ;-) I have, but have not carved metal with it. I was curious to see if I could contour a profile for a rifle barrel, but didn't touch metal as it was SS and lost it in a card crash before I got smart about 8G cards. > However that might take care of some of the lookahead problems. Just > dreaming. Ha! Don't dream Dave, cut g-code and do it, on scrap to start. > ......Back to resurrecting my Mazak. > > Dave > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
