You'd need to contact the manufacturer and see if they'll share the info with you. I wouldn't count on it.
Hello my friends!
Some intro blah blah:
I am really new in this stepper/servo motors stuff (and this forums)... and I find myself involved in a really simple project that consist in a 2 axis (cartesian) robot that just have to go from point A to point B, then to point C, etc (no complex curves and paths, nor Gcode) the fastest way possible.
At first I used an Arduino with the AccelStep library, and its working! but I have some speed issues (slow, and when I use 2 axis at the same time its slower)...
So I brought one of this Mach3 Controller Borads, this one:
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4 axis STB4100 motion card
Because I need to use it in my laptop so no serial port
I just received it! so I haven't connected any motor yet (weekend) but when I press stuffs in the Mach3 software the led blinks so it seems to be working xD.
Now the real question:
Since my application is really simple, I would like to write my own code (hopefully Qt C++) to control this board, But I couldn't find any Library/API/ProtocolDocumentation/etc on how to do it... I did find some info on how to add the mach3.exe to VisualStudio and communicate some stuffs to it using C# code... but still its depending on the mach3 software to be there. I want to write my own standalone software =)
Is this even posible?
thank you so much in advance!!
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You'd need to contact the manufacturer and see if they'll share the info with you. I wouldn't count on it.
Gerry
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Could you just use GRBL on an Arduino and write a PC control program to generate and send the G-code on the fly? All it would need to do is generate G1 X# Y# F# commands and send them over a USB serial connection.
Hi,
why did you buy a board without finding out if it could do as you wish?
The only boards that I know of the are compatible with Mach AND have a low level on-board programming ability is the
PoKeys 57CNC, Vital Systems Hicon (suitably activated...at a cost) or Gallil. The last two are expensive, around $1200
and $2000 respectively.
You might do some research on Dynamotion Kflop products, they have a Mach3 plugin but not a Mach4 plugin to my knowledge
but also have onboard programming.
Craig
Thank you so much for the answers, yeah I didn't do my homework beforehand, but not a problem, its no so expensive... besides I have worked with numerous hardware stuff in the past and everything has an API or something I can work with, so I just assumed that it was going to be the case this time too =).
I think I am going to research the arduino GRBL stuffs first!
thanks again!!