[Konvas] off-topic -- motorized heads

[Peter Haas]

On Dec 11, 2008, at 12:16 PM, H. W. Stone wrote:

> The people I have talked to recommend running it via a laptop-- not  
> directly.  They also recommend MAC over PC, and that you use  
> Firewire to connect it instead of USB2, but USB2 "will normally"  
> work fairly well.  That apparently keeps the problems to a minimum,  
> and allows you to upgrade joysticks, controllers, and store moves  
> to use in different locations weeks later, too.
>

Hmmm.

Coming from a process-control background (in another lifetime), I  
would recommend Ethernet and a Java-based application, driving a  
Rabbit one-board processor/controller.

The Rabbit has enough programmable inputs/outputs to do almost  
anything, and it has a browser-based interface, and Ethernet, built-in.

(If your motion-control applications must be super-secure ... LOL ...  
you can opt for SSL).