<div dir="ltr">Hi Justin,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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</div><div><br></div><div>exit0</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 September 2014 08:50, Justin Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin@discordia.org.uk" target="_blank">justin@discordia.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 08:24 +0100, Graham Owens wrote:<br>
> Hi guys, does anyone have on old pc with a parallel printer port they<br>
> are willing to donate/loan to the 'space for running the mini mill?<br>
<br>
</span>Any other requirements?<br>
ie what do you drive it from, linuxcnc ? or something more arcane ?<br>
<br>
and have you considered an upgrade to a modern controller board like a<br>
RAMPS ? ;)<br>
<br>
(ie something that accepts gcode instead of needing the host machine to<br>
do the timing)<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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