[Coco] George's CNC Machine (WAS: Something else)

[Joel Ewy]

I'm saving my pennies for a Digilent starter board...
At this point my CNC needs are being taken care of by a P4 and EMC2. 
But one of my earliest computer memories is of seeing some old 8-bitter,
probably running CP/M, put a pen plotter through its paces back in
1977.  Surely a CoCo could do the job, even if it has to pre-calculate.

JCE

RON BIHLER wrote:
> Now we are talking :)  
> Heck now out of curosity, I need to see if this is possible.  I am going to look into the code required for basic circle interpulation on the Coco.  
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> Ron> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:22:52 -0500> From: jcewy at swbell.net> To: coco at maltedmedia.com> Subject: Re: [Coco] George's CNC Machine (WAS: Something else)> > A CNC machine is one of the things that an FPGA CoCo would be great> for. You get the simplicity and familiarity of the CoCo, plus about 10> times the speed of the original CoCo hardware. And if there is enough> free logic real estate left over after implementing the CoCo> functionality, one could add, e.g. a hardware math processor to the CoCo> design. A math module optimized for doing the kinds of calculations> needed in computing a tool path could be very fast on an FPGA. Putting> that under the control of an unencumbered system like the CoCo would be> the best of both worlds.> > JCE> > > --> Coco mailing list> Coco at maltedmedia.com> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
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