Hardware needed?

[cowboygary]

Hi @mgruhler,

I want to communicate my PC to an Ethercat remote IO using ROS.

Do I need special chip on the PC side?
Or I can directly communicate using soem?

[Matthias Gruhler]

No, you don't need any special hardware. I've done this e.g. using a RPi3 running Ubuntu Mate or an Intel Nuc with a regular Ubuntu.

You obviously do need an Ethernet jack though.

[cowboygary]

Thanks @mgruhler

I will try it and will share here if it is successful.