![]() ![]() The following was in an email I sent to Art Fenarty, the original writer of Mach3 tonight at 23:14 In the middle of cooking dinner for the wife, so my focus was not totally on this forum. Michael - yes, probably cut-n-pasted the wrong link. Posted by John Alexander Stewart on 00:03:16: Thanks Murray Michael - yes, probably cut-n-pasted the wrong link. Very interesting, although doesn't sound as if we will be able to use it for a while. Not absolutely clear if they are using Linux but it sort of adds up, given the hints to LinuxCNC and the use of the Mesa board. ![]() In true Tormach fashion, they have published a white paper explaining the system and an installation guide that shows that the FPGA expansion board fitted to the PC is from Mesa Electronics. It's nice to see development in these controls for home machinists - lots of interesting stuff happening with LinuxCNC (stable platform), and especially the "future branch" stuff - machinekit.ioĪnyway, if like me you had not heard of this new Tormach control software, you have now!ĭid you post the wrong link, or am I being dim ? I do know that their CNC lathe runs a modified form of LinuxCNC already. This one is new to me - LinuxCNC base, Tormach front end (given back to open source, from what I read)
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