Getting started with Machinekit on the CHIP

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This blog post is about getting started with Machinekit on the Nexthing CHIP. With a price of 9$; the CHIP is the cheapest single board computer with wifi and flash memory on the market. The low price and easy availability make the CHIP an ideal platform for low-budget motion-control applications. This blog post focuses on the user perspective of using ...

Machinekit on the C.H.I.P. 9$ computer

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This article is about using the NextThing C.H.I.P. minicomputer with Machinekit. It explains how one can write GPIO drivers for Machinekit. Furthermore, it also shows how one can build Machinekit on the CHIP and how to cross compile an RT-PREEMPT kernel for the CHIP using the CHIP-SDK. If you are more interested in installing Machinekit and a pre-compiled RT kernel ...