Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

Thanks Dave,

I like cake, (thought I prefer Pi).

Kind regards,
Tony

Hello,

I purchased my Centroid/Acorn for use with a lathe shortly after Acorn's initial release. (Very nice product!) At that time a purchased a bare minimum computer (small screen, not much horsepower/ram) from Ebay. My primary concern at the time was getting a Win 10 system with a touch screen. I ...

Hi,

I understand the one Acorn kit/one computer rule. Makes sense. No problem. Here's my question, along with a little background:

I own both a Sherline bench top mill and a Sherline bench top lathe. I have had them for ages, have NEMA 23's on each and have been driving them with a Gecko G540 and ...

Greetings,

This is an easy one. Does anyone have any recommendations on where to source (at a reasonable price) a mushroom style, E-stop switch with two sets of normally closed contacts to use with my Acorn/Gecko (drive only) set up? Ebay has plenty of E-stop switches, but most have one each of NO ...

CncKeith,

Thanks for the speedy reply. I'm thinking of the Atom for the very short term, in the longer run you guys may have convinced me on the NUC. A follow up question on the Atom: When I first set it up I said "yes" to private network and "no" for public. (I was thinking that I wouldn't be ...

Hi,

Speaking of revisiting old posts...I recently bought an Acorn for a Sherline Lathe/Gecko G540 retrofit and bought a used 10" Acer, Atom based, WIN10 laptop/tablet combo for the project chiefly for the touchscreen. The software installed okay and I was able to get to the config screen, but when ...