On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 08:08:17 -0400 Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/4/20 6:13 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: > > >> > >> Never said I changed from Mach 3 to LinuxCNC. I've not owned a Windows > >> machine for the better part of 30 years. > > Oops. Sorry. For some reason I thought you had. What I'm looking for are > > reasons why perhaps (again other than a dislike of Windows) why people > > changed. > > > Controller didn't do what they wanted or needed it to do, > dissatisfaction with the OS, or any other number of reasons. I'm not in > the market place trying to sell CNC controllers, so I settled on one > that worked for me, and happily enough, it had a Linux back end so I > wasn't forced to use Windows or a Mac, both of which I dislike. > > > > > >> Doesn't matter to me how many units that Aliexpress sold per year of that > >> controller. Wouldn't work on my machine, so I have no need to even > >> consider it. > > I understand that. I think that Chris was basically trying to say the same > > thing. If for example those types of far east controllers were selling in > > the thousands that might say a lot about that type of user interface. > > > Or that they were cheap and were installed on a tablet that seems to be > ubiquitous these days. Unfortunately, the interface, both input and > output systems in the tablets leave a lot to be desired in the context > of a machine shop, at least from what I've seen of tablets. I just > don't want to depend on wireless communications to control a machine > that can hurt me or someone else or cause other kinds of damage.
Need to send message periodically to keep machine moving and no risk picking up noise or signal from somewhere else. Probably need some kind of encryption and randomness to solve this. On top of this are the ordinary risk what happen then something fails, used long enough and it will sooner or later, at least me quite often use things until they break. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
