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Any experiences with USB to serial or parallel converters on macXP ?
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<blockquote data-quote="nick mulder" data-source="post: 222214" data-attributes="member: 18060"><p>Hi Logan,</p><p></p><p>USB/serial doesn't seem to be attracting too many warnings so I'm going to bite that bullet..</p><p></p><p>As for the parallel/UBS I've been in touch with some people and they are telling me that the system I plan to use wont even recognize USB/parallel converters on a 'real' PC (a redundant comparison now anyway) - the progs apparently find the parallel port directly and dont go through windows printer code-wotsit-blah-thingy thing - </p><p></p><p>I'm planning on using Maya to output positional data with respect to time in a .txt file or similar - I will develop a prog that will convert this info into pulses that will output via something like this puppy:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.usbmicro.com/products.html" target="_blank">http://www.usbmicro.com/products.html</a></p><p></p><p>this is instead of the USB/parallel interface...</p><p></p><p>...Another thing to play around with is EMC in linux using the same piece of gear - this will save me from having to develop my own G-code step/dir pulse generator (excuse the techy CNC lingo) woohoo!</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.linuxcnc.org/" target="_blank">http://www.linuxcnc.org/</a></p><p></p><p>I'm pretty excited about getting to work ! :robot: </p><p></p><p>anyways cheers for your response - I'm thinking about this now as I am idle for a few days until I'm back at work saving for a trip and the new puter... In all honesty by the time I'm ready to buy all this carry-on a new range of mac's will be out</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nick mulder, post: 222214, member: 18060"] Hi Logan, USB/serial doesn't seem to be attracting too many warnings so I'm going to bite that bullet.. As for the parallel/UBS I've been in touch with some people and they are telling me that the system I plan to use wont even recognize USB/parallel converters on a 'real' PC (a redundant comparison now anyway) - the progs apparently find the parallel port directly and dont go through windows printer code-wotsit-blah-thingy thing - I'm planning on using Maya to output positional data with respect to time in a .txt file or similar - I will develop a prog that will convert this info into pulses that will output via something like this puppy: [url]http://www.usbmicro.com/products.html[/url] this is instead of the USB/parallel interface... ...Another thing to play around with is EMC in linux using the same piece of gear - this will save me from having to develop my own G-code step/dir pulse generator (excuse the techy CNC lingo) woohoo! [url]http://www.linuxcnc.org/[/url] I'm pretty excited about getting to work ! :robot: anyways cheers for your response - I'm thinking about this now as I am idle for a few days until I'm back at work saving for a trip and the new puter... In all honesty by the time I'm ready to buy all this carry-on a new range of mac's will be out [/QUOTE]
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