News, new members, equipment donations and so on

[Kenny Duffus]

On Tuesday, 10 January 2017 11:02:45 GMT, Andrew Back wrote:
> On 10/01/17 10:50, Martin McGrath wrote:
>
>> Recently we have had some interesting donations. Firstly someone
>> contacted us via the website offering some test equipment, stepper
>> motors and some other bits and bobs, thanks again to Kenny C for
>> collecting this and doping it off, and Kenny D for going through it
>> all. In addition a friend of mine has donated the shell of a small CNC ...
>
> If it would be of use, I can offer to donate a BeagleBone Black (BBB)
> plus Probotix PBX-BB board, which up until recently were used with
> Machinekit — excellent fork of LinuxCNC, with a focus on supporting BBB
> hardware — to drive a CNC plasma cutter. It's now surplus to
> requirements as we've replaced the BBB with an Intel NUC and some fancy
> MESA I/O hardware with tons of I/O.
>

Hi Andrew,

Yeah that sounds like it would be brilliant, thanks.

You seem to get to play with lots of interesting stuff :-)

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	Kenny