Re: "Making" a new controller
Originally Posted by
mountaindew
I have 2 different controllers and they are not the same. One has specific Mesa Electronics interface board installed on the bus for machine connection. The other is a small brix form factor pc and the machine connection is the network port.
The Brix will still be running a Mesa interface board via that network port.
Wireless keyboards and mice are natively supported on any PC or OS I've run Linuxcnc on.
as ksstrauss says, things just work!
I would expect a trackball will appear to the OS as a mouse so would expect any trackball would work.
Rod Webster
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