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Smoothieware
Modular, opensource, high performance G-code interpreter and CNC controller written in Object-Oriented C++
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Also, Windows' USB stack is a complete dumpster fire - in Linux your thing just needs to say "hi I've got camera interfaces" in the device descriptor and you're mostly good to go, but Windows needs actual driver development, or at least a magic text file to tell it to use its preinstalled drivers.
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