New build with recycled parts on a ridiculous budget 120cm*60cm work area

[Desertboy]

Hmm what we have here?

It's a 5i25 PCI card for step generation in Linuxcnc it plugs into PCI slot on the motherboard and then to a standard parallel port BOB so it should be easy to setup with my existing system, you can buy add on breakout boards for the 5i25 so you can get better performance, even servo control. Basically this card gives you 2 parallel ports outputs with go faster stripes lol.

For now though will use with my cheapo BOB, my handwheel came today as well but still flued up been off work all week hopefully will drag myself in tomorrow morning to play.

http://store.mesanet.com/index.php?r...&product_id=55

From what I read on linuxcnc forums this setup should be able to run 50khz per axis no worries which is good enough for me the actual card can get generate mhz per axis but my BOB is the limiting factor also AM882 have a max of 200khz input.

Have you thought about control yet? If you want to try Linuxcnc you can boot it in a Virtual Machine and run it in simulation mode to have a play. Sure Mach 3 must have a similar mode.

More than once I thought about a DDCSV standalone controller but dual homing and the fact that linuxcnc is a very mature, professional environment controller that has over 2 decades of development it's just a no brainer but I want a production machine this year (Either buy one at auction or build one)

In hindsight what I should have done is hooked my reprap 3d printer to the PP BOB and played with my printer from linuxcnc when I was building the router after all it doesn't mater if you crash the printer into itself lol.

another cheap/free way to get control