Boyan .. You more or less echoed my post .. in different terms, different pov.
(We both live in Spain. A visit, perhaps .. ?).

I think the chinese market is not so big .. yet .. for controllers.
Almost-all controllers today are 3d printer/router/basic laser type stuff .. very little in china. Per popula.

I mostly wanted to point out somewhat why/how every intelligent controller has issues.
And why none of them will fix most issues, in near-term.

Because it is extremely complex, 100++ issues to power of 8 modals. Plus many cascading multiples of toolchangers, kinematics etc.

It actually would be relatively easy to fix 99.x% of issues..
but would cost == 3 (extra) good programmers == 6 months, == 130k€ or so.
The interface/controller/bob market cannot afford it as-is.

Note I made no preference for any controller.
The same fixes c/would apply to mach4 (x), cncxxx, chinese xx controllers, machmotion etc.

My post was-is more market value related.
Like VC funding, that I think would be dead-easy to get (I have experience).
The "field" imho needs much more structure, and assistance from someone with it/project/sales/tech support experience.

I think the most valuable parts would be docs, reference designs, examples.


Quote Originally Posted by Boyan Silyavski View Post
I have experience with Pokeys and it didn't work well for me, possibly due to interference. As i have said in another thread, documentation is not good, leading to constant questions.

As far as the market, we have to understand that Chinese don't care at all to make a controller to our needs. Their internal market is much bigger than the whole world market for controllers!!! So don't expect wonders here. They do what they need, so until they need it, there is no development.

The big problem with them is closing even Open source which they use for free, mainly because of fear somebody not to copy what they do. As they copy constantly of course, so they fear the same fate . then comes the copy of a copy of a copy...