Hey guys. Total newby I’m afraid to the stepper motor biz. I know a fair bit of electronics, but can’t find an answer to this issue. I’ve seen where someone used an arduino, a motor driver, and a joystick or pushbuttons or something similar. Is that possible with the smoothie board? Otherwise I may have to tuck the smoothie on the shelf and buy the arduino. I’ve looked through the forum but haven’t found an answer. Any ideas? Thanks.
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We have this but it’s not released yet : http://smoothieware.org/joystick?from=email
Also, you can map buttons to specific buttons using smoothieware.org/switch and people have used that to do what you want.
Thanks. I read the joystick documentation, I’ll look at the switch docs. One more question, what are the POT6-7-8 points used for? I don’t see these on the pinout listings any where.
They are un-used digipot pins from the second digipot. Not very useful.