One of the best self projects i've ever seen. I hope he is being mentoring somewhere to take advantage. This guy could be the next Jony Ive.
But why windows? Realtime OS needed badly.
But why windows? Realtime OS needed badly.
* you have Linux Kinix Python libs and drivers.
* You can use a very minimal Linux distro that starts little to nothing else up
It'd probably be better than running on Windows, but still not as nice as running real time, or close to real time (e.g. having a small C, Go or Rust program that runs on a custom Linux image where it runs as init)
Windows is not a real-time OS. There is no reasonable expectation for it to perform as one in places where one is required.
In this case, what is required is only a "soft-real-time" OS, which even Linux can manage. But for this sort of project it is more usual to use a microcontroller.
Programming microcontrollers is, incidentally, much more fun than programming a big'n'sloppy desk OS like windows ... or linux.