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The microlathe I converted to Acorn earlier this year uses the USB-BOB board to give us semi-manual control. I love this, and it was the main reason I chose acorn - because sometimes you just don't need it to be automated, you just need a quick part.

We're a motion picture film scanning service ...

Cool - thanks!

The microlathe I converted to Acorn earlier this year uses the USB-BOB board to give us semi-manual control. I love this, and it was the main reason I chose acorn - because sometimes you just don't need it to be automated, you just need a quick part.

We're a motion picture film scanning service ...

The machine I'm retrofitting is small. It was originally sold for milling jewelers wax, and is based on a German Isel mill, but wrapped in Gemvision's steel enclosure. The back has two spaces: one is the area behind the main steel bezel that wraps around the base mill. Then inside that is a tall ...

Yeah in this case it's going to be installed in a tight space, and I'm trying to keep the electronics internal to the machine (except for keyboard/mouse/monitor). We will run this in an office, and may be milling aluminum on it, with a drip or mist coolant setup, so it will also need to have a ...

Just a fyi, the lenovo m93p fits in the palm of your hand, is not very expensive, and has worked well on multiple systems. Good luck whatever you go with.


Thanks. I used a GMTec mini PC on my lathe with Acorn, it's about half the size of the Lenovo M93p and works great. The one I got was about ...

They're not BIOS settings, they are Windows settings.

They exist in both places. And not just for laptops -- We have plenty of server-grade machines here that allow you to alter some of these same settings at the hardware level. But it's understandably more common with laptops since they need to ...

Understood - thanks. Yeah I get the issues with laptops but if you're using it in an always-plugged in, never going to sleep mode, it should be ok. I've built hundreds of PCs so no stranger to BIOS settings!

I understand that a properly setup laptop will work, but everything I've read here says no support if you use a laptop. So how much of an issue is that?

I use a MASSO on my CNC router at home and the lack of macros hasn't been an issue. This setup is my first 4-axis though and I'm not sure whether ...

I am weighing the pros and cons of MASSO vs Acorn for my small 4-axis mill rebuild. There is not a ton of space inside the unit and my intention is to keep it as self contained as possible. I want all the controls inside the existing control box, because the design is really nice and allows you to ...