Suggestions for a small footprint PC

[rlrhett]

I have recently rebuilt a machine, and am on a roll! Electronics (4 Gecko 251X, a generic BOB, 36V power supply, and a UC-100 usb dongle) are all tucked away in a new enclosure. Cable chains keeping everything tidy, etc.

Now my main grief comes from this bulky full tower PC controlling it. I saw a slick one box, touchscreen Raspberry Pi thing on a YouTube video. Whole thing was the size of my existing electronics box. Problem is that it won’t run my UCCNC software (or even LinuxCNC). A quick google shows that a Pi based system is still VERY experimental.

So, anybody have a cool solution they want to share? Is there a way to piece together a cool little dedicated computer to run my controller software (that won’t break the bank)?


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[ger21]

Something like this?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-i5-29...QAAOSwqklZihDB

Note that I haven't tried one of these.

[Mogal]

My main CNC computer died yesterday. An emergency conversion resulted in using a NUC computer:
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Produc...82E16856102143

So far REALLY good results!

[Iron-Man]

I have recently rebuilt a machine, and am on a roll! Electronics (4 Gecko 251X, a generic BOB, 36V power supply, and a UC-100 usb dongle) are all tucked away in a new enclosure. Cable chains keeping everything tidy, etc. Now my main grief comes from this bulky full tower PC controlling it. I saw a slick one box, touchscreen Raspberry Pi thing on a YouTube video. Whole thing was the size of my existing electronics box. Problem is that it won’t run my UCCNC software (or even LinuxCNC). A quick google shows that a Pi based system is still VERY experimental. So, anybody have a cool solution they want to share? Is there a way to piece together a cool little dedicated computer to run my controller software (that won’t break the bank)? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I am running PathPilot on this system: AMD GizmoSphere + IBOB2, Denford Software & Machines ? View topic - NovaTurn Servo retrofit AMD Gizmosphere iBOB2 PCIe x1
Hope this helps,
Iron-Man