Our CNC machine (Laguna Swift) can only read files from a flash drive. I was wondering if there is a way connect the CNC machine to a Windows 10 computer via USB-A to USB-A cable and share a folder to "emulate" flash drive? Or maybe there is a flash drive that could be accessed by multiple devices at the same time?
[EDIT] I've followed this tutorial and successfully created a network connected flash drive. Other than slow booting it works wonderfully.
you cannot do this with USB
FAT-32 and ExFAT are not network filesystems, as a result there is no way to have two or more computers accessing them at the same time reliably.
With USB your best options are to build a robot to re-plug the storage media. (this could just be a bunch of relays switching USB signals) or to look for a way to connect your device to a network file share.
But seeing as the Laguna controller is a Windows computer, just jog into that as administrator and set-up the USB drive as a file share, then you can update the files over the network.
