I have been reading up on LinuxCNC and wondering if I might use it some day. I watched My Heap’s video series and it really explains all the steps to get it going, but it still remains somewhat generic. He doesn’t examine the driver cards much, other that talking about the different ones available.
I’d be curious about what you come up with. For the time being, I’m ok with CNCjs for driving the machine and using the Archim board. It is great to have everything all set up and easy to connect to the controller with a USB cable to my raspberry pi. However, I am just not satisfied with CNCjs. There are things that I don’t need and things that don’t work as I want and I haven’t taken the time to fork it and tweak the UI to my liking. I’m still learning the ins and out.
I had done some work with the tinyG controller card. Chili Peppr works pretty cool. Just didn’t take the time to figure out the ins and outs to make it run the MPCNC, especially with the dual axes motors and the dual endstops
For the time being, I’m happy with what I have. But I do like the open source software and the amazing level of control you can get with LinuxCNC. Maybe it isn’t necessary at all, but I am curious for sure.
There are folks who have used it. Curious how @uthayne has done with his.