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Bunch of questions, Hopefully someone can fill in a few blanks as I formulate a plan for the lathe.

I'm using Axis for my mill and I'm completely happy with it. I'm now considering using LinuxCNC for my lathe. I definitely want to maintain manual operation capability.

Presently I have a derivative of the Clough42 ELS with feedback from the spindle and a stepper driving the leadscrew for threading. I like the simplicity of selecting various thread pitches metric and SAE electronically.
1) I don't suppose LinuxCNC has this "ELS" capability?

2) I also have DRO scales. Assuming I will use a MESA board, is it possible to connect the scales to the MESA board and use LinuxCNC as a glorified DRO without actually driving any steppers/servos?

3) Assuming for the moment I can use LinuxCNC simply as a DRO, what MESA board(s) would be a good fit for say max 3 encoder inputs and possibly up to 3 steppers later?

 I have a RaspberryPi of some sort and I might try using it for the LinuxCNC for both space and $.

4) What RaspberryPI's are likely to have acceptable latency and what versions should I avoid?

 I find the Axis GUI a good fit for my needs on the mill, what GUI is a good fit for lathe control?

Much appreciated.
 

Did I missed anything? New Dev? New tricks!? Is RIO finally able to read minds and make a part start to finish on its own yet? Or I still need to CAD, CAM, Gcode fix this, gcode fix that, gear in tooling, fixture stuff, dial feedrate, make coffee, dial more, make more coffee?

Link up, Oliver. If you think I've missed anything important since 90 days shoot me in the correct direction please, I'll have spare time during the weekend to spy on The Best Cult around!

You might try explicitly setting the high address in the hm2_7i43 command line (and the debug option)

did you try the --readhmid mesaflash option?

What kind of parallel port card do you have (what chip manufacturer?)

what does lspci report for the parallel port addresses? (trying to verify the high address)

Yo what's up Cult RIO & Awesome Fabricators! I hope Chief Technology Officer Oliver and his Lcnc crew are all doing fine?

Pardon my disappearance from my last updates, had to swing cross border to deal with pressing family issues (nothing health or negative related, only good stuff). The better news is when I came back I immediately rushed to the garage to see my gears and V O I L A , the RIO kit was shinning a led haha.

Everything werks spins moves scream slice chew cut chips its amazing to be back, it's just all full of f n dust everywhere though HELP lol

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