rtstepperemc

USB CNC controller application based on EMC2

The rt-stepper project provides a software/hardware solution for a USB CNC controller. Most CNC controllers are designed to be driven with a PC parallel port. The rt-stepper solution replaces the parallel port with USB. With the rt-stepper dongle users can convert their existing parallel port CNC controller into a USB CNC controller. Designers can integrate the hardware into there own CNC controller. The PC side application is based on the popular EMC2 software at www.linuxcnc.org. By re-purposing EMC2 software the rt-stepper solution provides 4-axis support, a complete gcode interpreter, a trajectory planner, a GUI front-end, backplotting, and more. Since the rt-stepper hardware provides the real time step pulses, you can now drive your CNC controller from standard PCs running Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

Project Information

The project was created on Mar 20, 2012.

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CNC USB Engineering Parallel Dongle Linux Windows MacOSX Controller G-Code rtstepper rt-stepper EMC EMC2