Linuxcnc ethernet over Arduino?

Hello,
does some knows or want to create a software use an arduino nano with an ethernet shield to emulate one printerport? For newbies who built a very small milling machine it must be possible to control the machine with a laptop or an tablet.
I am sorry to say that I am not able to do this, but this can not be a problem for a software profi.
For a beginner with a small machine will be one printerport enough.

Thanks

Hans

How much does a Nano + Shield cost?

Is it enough less than store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=produc...83_85&product_id=306 to make it worth the trouble?

Hello andypugh,
a nano with ethernet shield costs under 10,-$, but its not only the price. In Germany its not so easy to get a mesa-board. When someone will test his milling machine with a laptop and linuxcnc he will use a nano, but he will not order a mesa-board outside Germany?

Thanks

Hans

Holzwurm56 wrote: Hello andypugh,
a nano with ethernet shield costs under 10,-$, but its not only the price. In Germany its not so easy to get a mesa-board.

www.shop.cncmonster.de/LinuxCNC/FPGA-Karten//::386.html

If this is for motion control, I suspect the Arduino Nano lacks sufficient horsepower
to maintain real time Ethernet communications at 1 KHz and generate multi axis step
pulses at the same time. (if you had a Nano and shield, a ping test might give some
idea of performance)

Starting from scratch, there are many other (non Arduino) microcontrollers that
could handle this, for example a STM32F407 would probably be a good choice

Hello PCW,
do know some possibility to emulate one printerport with linuxcnc over ethernet? For a small 3 axes milling machine are 10 I/O-pins enough.

Thanks

Hans