[Machinekit] Re: help for a newbie please

2019-06-27 Thread Roberto Gonzalez
Hi Jeff. Thanks a los for the info anda the help, I will try this way. -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe fr

[Machinekit] Re: help for a newbie please

2019-06-27 Thread Jeff Pollard
Hi, The setup file should get automatically run when the HAL file is run. You should only have to go through the configuration chooser, select CRAMPS, then run it. The INI and HAL files will do the rest, including run the setup files. This assumes you use an older version of Machinekit

[Machinekit] Re: help for a newbie please

2019-06-25 Thread Roberto Gonzalez
Thanks again, Jeff. That was basically my idea, in fact I have already launched an axis GUI with the CRAMPS configuration, all I would have to do would be to adjust a few parameters in the .INI to adapt them to my engines, I have printed the scheme you mentioned (thank you very much) and in t

[Machinekit] Re: help for a newbie please

2019-06-25 Thread Jeff Pollard
Hi, The CRAMPS has space for built-in drivers, and it not itself a breakout board, so really would not be useful for your system as a hardware option. The reason I mention it is that it is a complete software setup that would be ready to run and has schematic available to see how the INI and

[Machinekit] Re: help for a newbie please

2019-06-24 Thread Roberto Gonzalez
Hello Jeff, thanks for the quick response. So far I have done tests with a mega Arduino and the engines are going well so I understand that there would be no problem. From what I have read so far here CRAMPS was an option that I contemplated but I had doubts if it would serve me for the Nema 2

[Machinekit] Re: help for a newbie please

2019-06-24 Thread Jeff Pollard
Hi, The BBB outputs 3.3V for its digital I/O. This may, or may not be enough to drive your motor drives. You do not *have* to have a cape if you wired the BBB pins to the parallel port BOB and from there to your motor drive. Different version of the MachineKit software act differently on