Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

I've used VSCode to build a custom (open web standards) CNC control UI using a Raspberry Pi with a Protoneer CNC Hat (based on Arduino GRBL). This machine has been in production for over a year and it runs great all day, every day. Best of all, any computer (or iPad, etc) on the network can become ...

As an end user it just bums me out to be forced into a specific platform... especially when that platform is Windows. I guess It just seems absurd to box apps in this way with all of the excellent cross-platform dev tools available these days.

Software development has changed (improved and opened ...

I finally made it back to check on this... I was really hoping for something more than the "skinning" :(

I really, really like the Acorn board but the Windows 10 dependency will ultimately keep me from using it.

If there was an open API so I could build my own platform independent frontend for it ...

Thanks for the quick response and the info. I am very impressed with the Acorn... just wish I could use NodeJS to create a platform independent UI to use with it. I'm looking forward to seeing what the updated "skinning" feature set will be.

Is there a documented API for the Acorn for those of us that might want to play and create our own UI not dependent on Windows 10?