[Swansea Hackspace] An old PC with parallel printer port?

[Graham Owens]

Hi Justin,

Modern drive electronics are fine, but I would not be very happy running it
without a host PC for the time being until we could talk over the safety
aspects of doing so.
Unlike the 3d printer that will make some noise to complain about someone
getting their hand in the wrong place, the mill can do some serious damage
- so the ability to preview, view the cuts as they are happening and most
importantly emergency stopping need to be dealt with first if we were to
move away from linuxcnc.

I can bring in my PC so that we can see how its setup, but I can only leave
it there for a week as I use it for my other machines.

PS, if anyone mentions running it with Mach3, the offending party will be
liable to abuse of the type normally reserved for new recruits in stanley
kubricks Full Metal Jacket.  :D

exit0

On 16 September 2014 08:50, Justin Mitchell <justin at discordia.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 08:24 +0100, Graham Owens wrote:
> > Hi guys, does anyone have on old pc with a parallel printer port they
> > are willing to donate/loan to the 'space for running the mini mill?
>
> Any other requirements?
> ie what do you drive it from, linuxcnc ? or something more arcane ?
>
> and have you considered an upgrade to a modern controller board like a
> RAMPS ? ;)
>
> (ie something that accepts gcode instead of needing the host machine to
> do the timing)
>
>
>
>
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