Raspberry Pi

[Jonathan]

I think one of these would be better for development?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brand-New-...ht_6416wt_1037

Then get a cheaper board without the LCD etc for the actual controller, or perhaps stick with the LCD as there's enough space there to display the important information.

[Robin Hewitt]

I think one of these would be better for development?

That's the one I bought. Well I actually bought 2 so my brother got one which is always a good move. The preloaded program source did not compile but he did the spade work and sent me back a bare bones program to do the screen and touch panel all set up and ready to run with the "Eclipse" C compiler. I unzipped it, compiled it, uploaded it and it was fine and dandy.

I know this is cheating, but hey!

[Jonathan]

Nice n cheap and I might yet get one to play with but it doesn't have what i want on board, like the Ethernet...

Here's one that does:


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NXP-LPC176...item3f19dcb8f9


Or:


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Developmen...ht_5481wt_1139


I reckon I'll get one of those, not sure which...

[irving2008]

Here's one that does:


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NXP-LPC176...item3f19dcb8f9


Or:


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Developmen...ht_5481wt_1139



I reckon I'll get one of those, not sure which...

Both nice boards tho without the touch screen of the original one you listed, but amazing pricing...

But with only 512k rom/64k RAM you're going to have to do primarily bare-metal programming which is fine for a bit of bit-bashing, but (and I admit I've not done much research yet) I'd not want to write my own Ethernet software, web server, etc., etc. I guess there are examples of these around, but I want to focus on the CNC stuff not getting the basic platform up and running... a little googling suggests that there is limited info about this (compared to the Linux world) and a shed load of work even to do basic stuff like turn an LED on and off from a web page...

But don't let me stop you....