Comment by xattt
14 days ago
Does the Cricut operate as an IoT device, or does it interface directly with a PC?
My understanding is that Wine doesn’t do any drivers or interface with any hardware.
14 days ago
Does the Cricut operate as an IoT device, or does it interface directly with a PC?
My understanding is that Wine doesn’t do any drivers or interface with any hardware.
The Cricut maker 3 is USB or Bluetooth. The cricut software is only just usable IMO. Thankfully designs can be done in illustrator and imported as DXF if you're very careful about the workflow.
It depends on how it's implemented. You're correct that Wine can't support kernel-mode drivers, but there are user-mode ways to talk to hardware, too. Wine supports direct user-mode access to USB devices, so if the control software talks to USB by opening the device and directly reading/writing the protocol itself, then it should work just fine.
> does it interface directly with a PC?
On the Explore Air 2 I had, you plug it in via USB or talk to it over Bluetooth[0].
[0] https://help.cricut.com/hc/en-us/articles/6581830148759-Blue...