Workshop Control System

[Daftlander]

Hi all, 

 

My garage has turned into a little manufactory and is finally in need of an upgrade. 

 

At the moment my CNC machine runs off an ancient HP laptop from the 2010's and takes a full 20 minutes to boot up; my FDM 3D printer is running Ocotopi and I currently have my old OnePlus 6 sitting out there as a tablet to control it. Finally I have a UV Resin printer with no monitoring/ remote control at all. 

 

The idea I had was to get rid of the laptop and have a small dedicated PC, maybe even a NUC in the garage. It doesn't need to be powerful really, just enough to browse the web as both Octopi and the CNC have web based GUI. 

But I want to have a tablet I can carry around the garage/ house or possibly out of the building as a way to monitor and control all three machines. 

 

There is a way to bodge together an Octopi that would work with the resin printer. But if any of you guys know of a better way of remote monitoring an elegoo mars, let me know. Google has failed me. 

 

I have a project in mind that would require all the machines running at once and for long periods of time and while I'm set up for fire suppression I'm not really comfortable leaving the house for work, especially if the CNC is running and  I cant see it/emergency stop it. 

 

I'm not worried so much about hardware, although if anyone knows of a small factor case that is dust resistant that would be great. I'm more looking for a software solution and how to set up the new computer and tablet to work in the way that I've described. 

 

Thanks in advance and let me know if this is the wrong section

 

Budget (including currency): £500-ish

Country: Great Britain

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for:  Brave/Chrome, receiving streams from multiple web cams at once. 

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):