Re: [Emc-users] Machmaker USB -> Parallel

[Bari <bar...@gm...>]

On 8/15/20 3:46 AM, Chris Albertson wrote:

> What are you missing?  THe Orange Pi is not a microcontroller.  It is a
> small size PC.  It runs Linux and acts like a PC,    I microcontroler is a
> single chip with a much less powerful CPU and memory measured in Kilo and
> mega bytes, not gigabytes. And they don't run Linux.
> So what you are missing is the suggestion was  not to replace the Linux-PC
> (or Linux-Pi) with a micro controller but rather create another external
> real-time board from a mass produced product.

Already done without another external board.

https://orangecnc.gitlab.io/arisc-driver.html

https://gitlab.com/orangecnc

https://linux-sunxi.org/AR100

Maybe you can help them with reading encoders for closed loop applications.