Thanks,
I'm looking at the plans from HobbyCNC. As far as I can tell, this is the easiest walkthrough set of plans from start to finish. I also found some information on the routezilla, pipe dream, and (something)7. Off of there I found some great links to more information. I can see my bank account is about to start dwindling!
I'm in north carolina today at a woodworking show and I see A LOT of small routers that look similar to these machines. There are a lot of people trying to break into this market, the minimum that i've seen a unit go for is 5k. I'd just like to build one of these units to make some parts for my RC helis.
Anyway, I need help on getting communication working between the PC and the controller. No one really gets into any depth as far as this goes. Is it because this is the simple part? I mean, everybody wants to talk about the actual building, no one wants to explain the communication. I'd at least like to see a simple diagram of the connections OR actual connections from the parallel port to driver cards.
This is what I want to for an experiment. Get a servo motor, and a small driver card. Then using my parallel port control the motor, no mechanics just control the speed and direction. Sounds easy? Please elaborate, I will graciously bow down to the stepper motor gurus!
Hey thanks for reading my long drawn out post.  |