Re: [PLUG] Speaker for PLUG North meeting on 14 Dec

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 10:50:28 -0600 (CST)
> From: "Paul L. Snyder"<plsnyder@drexel.edu>
>
> Looks like we don't have a speaker for the upcoming PLUG North meeting on
> December 14.  Eric Johnson has offered to give a talk on linuxcnc.org's
> Enhanced Machine Controller project (EMC2).  Eric describes it as follows:
>
>    The talk will be an overview of EMC2, a Linux based hard real-time
>    system for computer control of machines such as milling machines, lathes,
>    plasma cutters, cutting machines, robots, hexapods, etc., as well as
>    associated user interfaces and other related utilities.
>
>    http://www.linuxcnc.org
>
> Is there interest in this talk at PLUG North?

I thought this was already a done deal.  But count me in, it sounds 
cool, especially if there are toys.

(And remember, this is how Skynet will self-assemble its hardware, once 
its software becomes self-aware.  So we should learn something about it 
now, while there's time... :)

Later,
JP
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