iPad app for Mach 3

[Kingjamez]

It sure would be cool if Mach could be ported to iOS. My touch screen iPad in combination with the smoothstepper would be an amazing machine control device. It has the power and if you rely on the caching capabilities of the smoothstepper you don't need a real time OS.

The iPad has USB support, but a WiFi or Bluetooth smooth stepper would also be pretty.sweet.  But that's a request for another forum.
-Jim

[RadiantHeat]

the ipad has usb support ? mine sure don't ?

I do run mach3 from fusion 3.0 on my mac mini. works perfect.

[Kingjamez]

How do you hook up your iPad to your computer then?

[devellison]

I'd be pretty nervous doing that myself, just don't like the thought of my machine control system halting while the machine is operating due to task switching / battery / etc.

Right now USB is only generally available via the Camera adapter (and it's kinda limited to a few HID types) w/o jailbreaking or specially designed hardware under Apple's mfi program.  Hoping that opens up with future revs of iPad, but not betting on it.

Front end sounds more doable, esp. over wifi...  Do you really want to replace your machine with the iPad, or would it just be nice to use the iPad to control it?