On 28 Mar 2018, at 22:02, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm just starting on building a CNC router using MachineKit and a BBB. You'll
still need a board of some kind, if for no other reason than to isolate the BBB
from the rest of your system. I bought an OPTOCAPE ($165) to experiment with,
but I will be designing and building my own board at the same time (mostly
because I want all the right connectors on it).
The big problem to get across is that Machinekit is nothing to do with BBB.
The fact that you can get a BBB to work with Machinekit and 'X'
hardware, does not mean it is the desirable or optimum choice.
For the money you spent on a cape and BBB, you could buy an ex-corporate
dual core pentium computer and a Mesa card and have a setup which is 50
times more capable
and far easier to configure and work with.
- Stepper Configuration Wizard: Better introductory information than anything else so
far, but says it's for "standard parallel port." Does that mean I can't use it
on BBB?
Yes, the BBB does not have a parallel port. Machinekit is not a beaglebone
project. So there will always be options not applicable to your hardware
The documentation is legacy Linuxcnc, which was rtai kernel and parport
or rt-preempt kernel and hardware FPGA cards only.
Where the docs diverge to include machinekit only areas, depends wholly
upon people writing them and submitting them for general usage.
It is a community project, but thus far everyone (with minimal
exceptions) who has stood where you are and bemoaned the lack of
detailed personalised instructions for their
hardware combination of choice, has subsequently failed to contribute
anything to make it easier for the next person to tread that path.
If you were to break that trend, I would be delighted.
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