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General Mach Discussion / Arduino microcontroller

« on: May 19, 2009, 10:55:43 AM »

I'm interested to control Arduino micro controller using Mach3. Has anybody got any experience or samples how to do. I would like to do things like set and read spindle speed and limit switches.

Arduino is very easy to program microcontroller and it can communicate with PC using RS232 over USB. More information from http://arduino.cc/

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Stepper motor as spindle

« on: May 07, 2009, 05:44:37 AM »

Hi,

After look more carefylly I understand already a bit more. But still unclear what is relation for S xx to how many steps / s.

Can you please clarify which menu I have to use to define how many steps / s means example S200?

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General Mach Discussion / Stepper motor as spindle

« on: May 07, 2009, 03:15:17 AM »

Hello,

I'm thinking of application where spindle motor is also stepper motor.

How can I configure Mach3 so that it can control this stepper motor as well using M3/M4 Sxx commands.