Hello everyone, I'm wondering if you or anyone you know would be interested in a turnkey solution based on Machinekit.
>From what I have seen so far, it looks like a lot people are struggling with the basics of getting Machinekit up and running. Even if you buy a well supported BBB cape and you are lucky to get the Machinekit image running in one try, you still need to setup Machinekit for your particular machine. Right now, you will not get around basic Linux skills to do this. I was thinking about creating a Mach3 alike solution based on Machinekit. Not including the bad parts of Mach3, but the good ones like proper (runtime) configuration wizards and an easily re-configurable UI. However, I don't think it's possible to create such a system just on the side, because if you already know Machinekit in and out, then you just don't have the incentive to build it. Also I don't think it's financially possible to fund such a thing just by selling electronics with Machinekit support at the marginal production costs, or else we would have already seen it. So I wonder if you would be willing to pay more for a turnkey Machinekit solution that is easy to setup, easy to use and simply works. I personally don't like the idea of hiding the costs for creating such system in the final costs of the electronics. So this would be mean paying for extra software on top of Machinekit. All in all, this would come down to the idea of using Machinekit just because it's gratis or because it's great. In my opinion, if you are just looking for a cheap solution, then you might be better of with grbl anyway. >From what I have seen so far, there is nothing that fills this market. Being easy to use and user friendly, being scale-able from a 7$ ARM computer up to a high end x86 machine and with good commercial support. I really would like to invest more time into improving Machinekit and in my opinion being a commercial baker of an open source project is the most efficient way to do this. For you as a community member this would mean more work being put into improving Machinekit, for you as potential commercial user of Machinekit this would mean less development costs and better support, for me this would mean I can spend more time doing what I like. Sounds like a win, win, win situation, doesn't it? Please let me know what you think. If you don't want to respond publicly, feel free to shoot me a PM. Best regards, Alexander -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
