Yeah, Ive seen his name come up in a lot of things, but not the linuxcnc beaglebone drivers,
so I was wondering if his work is the same as linuxcnc beaglebone drivers,or if its the same as the machinekit bbb drivers or if both the linuxcnc/machinekit bbb drivers are the same, is this one an improved version with higher steprates as this is pru firmware? I only ask because I dont see any reference to seb in any of the bb drivers, and from my reading/understanding of the topic the current drivers didnt make full use of the pru. I am curious as it seems like a different process compared to the other beaglebone implementations.
the beaglebone is a nice board that seems ideal for this type of application, and the limitations holding it back before like slow graphics can probably be solved by it now having a hardware graphics driver, and appears to support qt. Im just having a hard time getting it all working because Im not to good with computers.
If only doing one machine and willing to spend couple hundred for a Mesa setup it's a good way to go and having long running commercial support can be a good thing.
I have already converted 2 machines to LinuxCNC/Remora and have a 3rd to do. So with each machine costing under $100 for the conversion is roughly $300 for 3 vs $1000 for the three and I already had one compatible controller board in one of the machines so it was just a firmware and config.txt file change on a uSD card and some tweaking of the hal and ini files.
I almost went for Mesa but then found Remora and its developer.
Do not use Remora, I spent time and money and got it all set up and running only to find out it can only do 25khz step rate (confirmed). The built-in RPI4 I/O can do better, not much but still no point.
