Re: parallel port finally obsolete?

I think you will find that any usb with driver boards can only work with that manufactures software.

those offerings are very limited in options.

also, the mac is not mainstream in CNC.

If I can read between the lines, you are looking for a direct, computer to motor drive that works with a mac, and does not use a BOB, but has the motor drivers on-board with the usb or eithernet or firewires or other serial interface that you can get with a mac.



is that basically what you are looking for ?

Dave

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "scyvt" <scy@...> wrote:
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> Thanks everybody who replied to my original question.
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> However I'm not sure that a central point of my query was noticed: I asked about USB-to-motor (stepper) driver hardware, not USB-to-BOB. (Ethernet would be OK too). So Smooth Stepper, for example, would not meet that requirement. I think Flashcut has one, but I believe it is dedicated to their whole system. Kflop might do that, but it doesn't seem suitable for beginners. Geckodrive attempted something incorporating this function and much more, but abandoned the project.
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