On Sunday 15 March 2020 10:07:42 Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2020-03-15 at 08:37 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > BTW for controlling gadgets and machines I think that boards such as > > the Pyboard, the Teensies (Sparkfun) and the Feathers (Adafruit) may > > be much more suitable than the Pi. These boards have control/DSP > > oriented processors and lots of I/O instead of graphics and HDMI. > > Sounds sensible, however I believe Gene needs graphics as well for the > CNC software's GUI; at least from what I've gathered over the years of > him trying to get realtime kernels working on the Pi as well as > propriety graphics. Personally, I've always though such a design > architecture is totally bonkers, why isn't GUI and machine control > completely separate things. But that's not Gene's fault, it's the > software designers.
It can be split up, is a hassle but that needs 10GB ethernet, which I don't have. Somewhere in the path to the shed and garage, in a sea of gigabit stuff, is a 100Mbit limit. Probably an older switch. And decent gigabit switches seem to have dried up in the local market. What I have works flawlessly, but still somewhat slow. And at 85, with a spare parts list beginniing to look like Lee Majors, I know I am approaching the end of my run here. But I'll also say its been one hell of a ride. I've made that guy with the scythe blink first twice now. A very enjoyable feeling. 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>
