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Poll: LinuxCNC Hardware Survey (runs until 2025-12-20 00:00:00)

Mesa (all types)
37 62.7%
Pico (all types)
3 5.1%
General Mechatronics
No votes 0%
Motenc
No votes 0%
Servo-to-Go
No votes 0%
PCL720
No votes 0%
Pluto
No votes 0%
Vigilant Technologies ENCDAC
No votes 0%
TIRO (PC104)
No votes 0%
Siemens Evoreg
No votes 0%
Axiom AX5241H
No votes 0%
Parallel Port
7 11.9%
EtherCAT
12 20.3%
Total number of voters: 59
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20 Nov 2025 23:18 - 22 Nov 2025 22:39 #338840 by andypugh
LinuxCNC Hardware Survey was created by andypugh
LinuxCNC supports a wide range of hardware, including a number of obsolete ISA cards etc. 
In order to prioritise maintenance of the drivers (and possibly to retire some drivers) it would be useful to know what hardware is out there "in the wild"

Please fill out the survey below selecting any hardware that you use yourself, or have recently seen in use.

(Edit) The poll only appears to allow a single selection, but I have enabled multiple votes per user, so it may be possible to add data for several hardware devices. 
Last edit: 22 Nov 2025 22:39 by andypugh.
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23 Nov 2025 07:26 #339029 by emresensoy
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Now we are among the hardware providers.
www.egerobotics.com

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23 Nov 2025 10:59 #339040 by andypugh
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Now we are among the hardware providers.
www.egerobotics.com

Do you have a driver in the LinuxCNC distribution? (Do you want one?)

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23 Nov 2025 18:13 #339070 by zz912
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Egerobotics components are based on EtherCAT. Is it possible to add such components to the LinuxCNC distribution? I know there are some licensing issues with EtherCAT. Or not?

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23 Nov 2025 19:23 #339078 by rodw
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Egerobotics components are based on EtherCAT. Is it possible to add such components to the LinuxCNC distribution? I know there are some licensing issues with EtherCAT. Or not?

Licencing Conditions pervents us from hosting ethercat stuff. The correct course of action ewould be to create pull requests against this rep,
github.com/linuxcnc-ethercat
the Ethercat master is configured as a dependency
The driver and devices here are synced to the iGh ethercat apt repository so that ethercat users can receive updated linuxcnc specific ethercat drivers with a simple apt upgrade
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25 Nov 2025 02:59 #339182 by emresensoy
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We have ESI files and many examples,
But, of course a driver is better than ever
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25 Nov 2025 21:45 #339222 by tommylight
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Add another vote for me for the parallel port, i still use it a lot.
I did vote for Mesa, the absolute reason being reliability, for both Mesa and Parallel port.

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26 Nov 2025 21:32 #339269 by andypugh
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Mesa, Pico, Parallel port and EtherCAT are safe.

It's the other stuff I am really interested in. Can we safely sunset those drivers?

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26 Nov 2025 22:44 #339272 by jmelson
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Servo2Go seems to still exist, but I don't see anything like the original Servo2Go ISA bus interface card on their web page.
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26 Nov 2025 22:58 #339275 by andypugh
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Servo2Go seems to still exist, but I don't see anything like the original Servo2Go ISA bus interface card on their web page
 

I am not sure if servo2go is the same as servotogo. 

The servotogo.com address now seems to redirect to an Indonesian lottery site. 

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