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Homemade Motion Controller with LRTimelapse Pro-Timer
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(2017-08-24, 21:23)ptweet Wrote: It currently used one of these: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1750
How is it mounted/connected to the Arduino? (A photo would be great)
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(2017-08-24, 21:23)ptweet Wrote: It currently used one of these: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1750
Some of the pins this shield uses are used by the SainSmart LCD shield (D4, D5, D6, D7, D8). If you wanted to add this shield to a standard LRTimelapse Pro-Timer, you would have to wire it separately to unused Arduino pins.
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I like the 2 arduino method where they communicate. I might just buy this module to run my 3 steppers. It has an ios app and is ready to go and works with the intervolometer. It's like $450 though: https://flic.kr/p/WLAGXm
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To be able to make a project like this on an Arduino Uno it would need to be hard-coded pretty hard, and it won't be very functional. By that I mean it will probably be hard to navigate on the low resolution screen, and it will be very hard to configure movement the way you want it. I've had a look at other open-source motion controllers and most use a bigger, faster Arduino - a bigger, better screen and some even shields with SD cards and ability to install whole OS's. In order to code all this we need to have a pretty good plan for the setup before we start. Honestly I think we (all interested) need to sit down in a chatroom for a while and discuss challenges and kinks + how to work around issues and what features to implement/ignore. I'm starting to believe it can be done, but how good it will be I am not certain about. That might however become clearer if we get to throw out ideas in a less formal form. A project like this will be an introduction to many new sides of hardware programming for me personally, and I've already learned a lot about controlling stepper motors just from our quite sloppy discussion in here today, so I'm gonna need to discuss a bit to be sure where it's going.
As for the "Synthetos gShield" I believe it needs support for grbl files that are used to trace the CNC path for your CNC machine. I'm not sure it can be used in this project (it would at least be out of my depth).
As for the "Synthetos gShield" I believe it needs support for grbl files that are used to trace the CNC path for your CNC machine. I'm not sure it can be used in this project (it would at least be out of my depth).
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(2017-08-24, 05:34)Hi ptweet,I\m glaad someone is working on the same direction.I'm not an expert in coding any therefore I am struggling to "merge" the coding from the intervalometer with the motion control.I can see that there may be also other issues regarding Arduino memory.If someone has already managed to combine the coding it will be very helpful to share it.RegardsPedroptweet Wrote: I see someone has done similar. https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-qds...r#pid34167