Comment by xattt
9 hours 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.
9 hours 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.
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.
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.
> 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...