Custom Application Interaction

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Hello,
I am trying to build a robot using the sbase for motion. Is it possible to drive the sbase with an arduino, raspi, or mac? I started down the road of writing a custom swift app and have connected to the board via serial. Can I just shoot GCode down the connection and get my motors moving? What is the preferred method for applications like this? Please point me in the right direction to get started.

Thanks

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Hey.

First please read http://smoothieware.org/troubleshooting#somebody-refused-to-help-me-because-my-board-is-a-mks-what-s-that-all-about

About your question, yes, it’s pretty much as simple as just sending gcode over serial. Always make sure the board has answered “ok” before sending a new Gcode.

Cheers.