Need help in selecting the right board for CNC machine

Hello All,

I am planning to build a Robo for dispensing the adhesive/sealant. I am very new to this field, so I started reading around on how can I make. After looking at various software around, I decided to use LinuxCNC. 

Now 2nd thing came as which board to use, I observed that board needs to be compatible with LinuxCNC (Please confirm if my understanding is correct). Again after looking around over net and discussion, I found that Mesa boards are best suited for LinuxCNC (again someone please confirm, or else if any other option, would be really helpful)

I believe I will need board which supports Servo motor for controlled movement of dispenser (I need only 3 axis)  and a solenoid control to start and stop the dispenser. Unfortunately I have very little knowledge about the board and so unable to select the one for my need. Any help in this regards would be really great.

Thanks & Regards,
Vandana

Thanks for reply Andy. I am just starting with experiments however, plan is to make this as a commercial product. I started experimenting as started getting enquiry on such product.

As I don't have much experience on hardware. So from different reading I understand, it will be difficult for me to work on breakout board unless I get proper support. So thought better to start with known working board.

I will be using Linear Servo motor and 2 way Solenoid valve

Really great to know that if i use raspberry pi then i don't need mesa board.. I went in this direction as i want to provide touchscreen display instead of pc control.

I was not sure if i can connect servo motor and solenoid controller with raspberry pi..

Thanks a lot for quickly helping me out in this as mesa boards not available iin India but raspberry pi is. easilly available.

Oh ok.. so I need Pi board and along with that FPGA board, which is 7C81 or 7i92 may be...