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TMC2660 Four stepper motor drivers on a stick.
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Upgrading a Smoothie Board #2

Open KarlZeilhofer opened 6 years ago

KarlZeilhofer commented 6 years ago

Hi,

have you thought about using your Trinamics board on upgrading a somoothie board ( http://smoothieware.org/smoothieboard )

They want to provide Trinamic drivers but with no schedule. So fitting your board to a smoothie board v1.1 could be an intermediate solution.

Greets, Karl

hzeller commented 6 years ago

Should be pretty straightforward if you ask me; if they provide an IDC connector like specified, it should be pretty simple to add. The step/dir is the same, but it requires some little initialization code for the SPI configuration. Having such connector would be great anyway so that we can separate the implementation of the motion control part and the stepmotor drivers that might be built and chosen for various power requirements.

Anyway, my first step is to make it work with BeagleG and get some experience to see if this is sufficient (I still need to provide a fault-out on pin 4), but then of course would like to see that other control boards also provide the simple connector to ultimately provide more choice in combinations people can use.