Mach3 with minipc?

[koep]

Hello Everyone!

Has anyone tried Mach with a Fit-pc or eBox ar any similar fanless minipc?

I'd be interested in hearing the results

Rgds,

Tapio

[Hood]

I use the Via Pico mobos in my machines, no parallel ports so I use the SmoothStepper as well. The Pico has a fan on it but I have seen them without.
The pico measures 100mm x 72mm for the motherboard and I also have a pico in an Artigo case that I have in the house for connecting to the TV.
Pics below, Pico for the mill and the Artigo with a CD on top showing the size.

Hood

[koep]

Hi Hood!

Thanks for the quick reply!

I take it from your answer that you get full performance out of this combo,
or atleast enough to be happy w/ it?

No problems due to the integrated video?

Does the pico have a hard disk or is it with CF/SSD?

Rgds

Tapio

[Hood]

No problems at all with the pico, the SS does the pulsing externally so a lot of the work is taken away from the PC itself. Integrated graphics are not a problem due to the fact that the software pulsing engine is not used.
The most I have seen on CPU was 30% and that was with a test of Rev4 of Mach, normally sits at 10% or less CPU.
The Pico has SATA and IDE for fitting hard drives, I use  2.5inch SATA drives.

Hood

[koep]

I think I have to start looking for a similar approach. I need to free floor space so I have to remod the whole electric enclosure so the
tower pc made for office floor has to go.....

thx again

tapio