Actually i just got some lmd18245 chips in the mail. Problem is in my infinite wisdom i only ordered 3.
Well i will work on the 7051 board design for now. I designed a board last night for the 7051 chips. But i need to trouble shoot any problems before i make anymore. I've actually looked at both picstep board and the embedded board. Both are very nice designs. Basically i am looking at building a controller that uses the pic18f452 and then seperate boards per axis. What the driver chips or arangements will be i don't know. Basically i'm reinventing the wheel and hoping to learn how it all works in the end. One thing i need to look at is either building or buying a pic programmer. But for now i will work on the board layouts and try and get my small router to work cutting pcb's. H500 keep me apprised of your board design. I have only played around with pic micro stuff but i have heard alot of good things about the AVR's.