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[Rob Spencer]

I've got a spindle if you need?

Kind regards

Rob 
gmsn.co.uk 
07590 267835

> On 10 Jan 2017, at 11:14, Kenny Duffus <kenny at duffus.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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 :-)
> 
> -- 
> 
>    Kenny
>