Thanks Kwinn, I wired it together to day and will try it in the near future. I will let you know how it goes.
I have over 300 solder connections on this circuit so far and I'm going to breadboard this to the PDB from Parallax to the BS2p40 with some of AL Willams Paks. , also to the Bs2 with the Propeller back-pack for video.
It's for a Lath & milling controller project based on the Sherline controllers which gives only one axis at a time. I have two controllers from Sherline (perfect in all ways) but expensive for more than one axis. Sherline does allow two controllers two be master and slave connected which is perfect, but I want 3 axis. I have one linear and one rotary controllers. I have 6 relays which I can choose what stepper motor I want to start.
I made my own circuit, it was based around the Commodore 64 from the 70's & 80's. I move alot for work reasons and have been working on this for a long time now. The commodore 64,s break down alot, so years ago I decided to definitly make sure that the BS2 was going to be the main part of this project. I always wanted to be able to display info to a monitor screen (commodore 64 reason), now Parallax has the Prop-back pack and I found Al Williams back-paks for math and key board and pulse counting. I think, I might add the Robot Basic with the u421 interface chip (for graphics and math and formulas) only!
I'm thinking about adding the SX48 chips also, and maybe the javelin stamp for storage of ASCII codes.
The Sherline controllers let the inputs be in 1/1000". My goal is do projects in this format that Sherline uses,then my project;put an in-coder to count the number that the stepper motors move per step (with Al Willams pulse counter) and store this in a storage area, give it a name(say, chess pawn or checker), then later when I want to make the latter part I enter the name then the program finds the code and does the cutting. I will need a pulse output to the stepper motors to do the right sequences.
Thank you for you response.
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I have over 300 solder connections on this circuit so far and I'm going to breadboard this to the PDB from Parallax to the BS2p40 with some of AL Willams Paks. , also to the Bs2 with the Propeller back-pack for video.
It's for a Lath & milling controller project based on the Sherline controllers which gives only one axis at a time. I have two controllers from Sherline (perfect in all ways) but expensive for more than one axis. Sherline does allow two controllers two be master and slave connected which is perfect, but I want 3 axis. I have one linear and one rotary controllers. I have 6 relays which I can choose what stepper motor I want to start.
I made my own circuit, it was based around the Commodore 64 from the 70's & 80's. I move alot for work reasons and have been working on this for a long time now. The commodore 64,s break down alot, so years ago I decided to definitly make sure that the BS2 was going to be the main part of this project. I always wanted to be able to display info to a monitor screen (commodore 64 reason), now Parallax has the Prop-back pack and I found Al Williams back-paks for math and key board and pulse counting. I think, I might add the Robot Basic with the u421 interface chip (for graphics and math and formulas) only!
I'm thinking about adding the SX48 chips also, and maybe the javelin stamp for storage of ASCII codes.
The Sherline controllers let the inputs be in 1/1000". My goal is do projects in this format that Sherline uses,then my project;put an in-coder to count the number that the stepper motors move per step (with Al Willams pulse counter) and store this in a storage area, give it a name(say, chess pawn or checker), then later when I want to make the latter part I enter the name then the program finds the code and does the cutting. I will need a pulse output to the stepper motors to do the right sequences.
Thank you for you response.
Allie