Embroidery machine retrofit.

So i have an embroidery machine that is missing it's control. I'm debating making it into a Linux cnc one.

Thoughts? Any other options you might recommend instead? is a partial teardown 

EDIT: So looking at it I have the following I would need to control. All looks somewhat simple although the devil is in the details.

Outputs
X stepper Motor
Y stepper Motor
Sewing machine motor. 
Tension solenoid
Bobbin winding motor (Likely just a switch as it does not need to be involved in the CNC part)

Sensors. All look to be the non contact style where you slide something between them. Forget the name offhand.
X homing
Y homing. (Not positive it exists but x does so y should.)
Encoder disk.
2 needle position sensors. Not sure why both but 1 is longer than the other
Top thread lost sensor
Bobbin sensor (Position or thread lost. Assuming thread lost for now.)

That thing has a Centronics port on the back, you should have led with that info and on the video!
So, find a parallel port cable with the big Centronics connector on one side, find a used PC with a parallel port or get a PCI or PCI-E to parallel converter, and give it a try.
Costs from 10 to 30$ in total, not counting the PC, so even if it does not work, no big deal.
Download the LinuxCNC ISO from the download page, you do not have to install it to be able to test with it, so even borrowing a PC and testing with it is OK, booting Linux from USB does not touch the existing hard drive or it's data.

So it does and i have plenty of computers with parallel ports. But all my googling shows that it hooked to a custom controller ( www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-m...s-stellar-1807616721 ) i have no clue the commands to make anything happen. If anybody has any ideas i am willing to go that route as well.

is the rest of the sensors for the needle and such.

Can you deal with an arduino?
Making a simple signal generator and testing pins 2 and 4 on that port is enough to prove it is doable or not.
Take a picture of that board and attach it here.

I Have a few esp8266 boards. I don't think i can find any of my arduinos but I could probably borrow one from work if I drive across town.

Cr@p!
That is a 50 pin centronics port, not a 36 pin one.
That complicates things, a lot. Reverse engineering ?
Or retrofit
Edit:
still i would try with a signal generator, ESP will do just fine for that, blinky with faster rate.