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EMC2 upgrade

Saturday, November 13, 2010

I've upgraded Ubuntu and EMC2 on the Atom 330 machine I have for controlling the lathe. The Atom 330 is a dual-core chip, but with Hyper Threading the OS can see four cores. That's not good for real-time performance, so the first thing I did was turn off HT from the BIOS. Next I did [...]

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Atom330/ITX computer for EMC2 lathe-control

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

I put together this small computer which will be used to control the lathe. The components for this kind of box are quite inexpensive: D945GCLF2 motherboard including 1.6 GHz Atom330 CPU, 76 eur Codegen MX31 case including 420W PSU, 46 eur 2Gb DDR2 memory stick, 46eur Samsung 320Gb HDD, 44eur Labtec keyaboard + mouse, 17eur [...]

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