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 Ma...

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...

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 w...