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Article #21738Re: Stepper Motors
From: Jack Hudler
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1989 05:06
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1989 05:06
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In article <2668@wpi.wpi.edu> gshapiro@wpi.wpi.edu (Gregory N. Shapiro) writes: >Does anyone have any information on how to get a computer to control >the running of a stepper motor through it's serial port. The computer >I would like to use is a Macintosh. If anyone has any information >regarding this topic, please mail it to me. Thank you. > Greg You might try Alpha Products, they have primitive stepper controller, (sorry it might not be primitive to you but they are to me) and for the money it does quite a bit. I have use them on several projects and have had no problems. As for the serial, I have never use that method to interface to the controller but they do have it. You will find ad's for them in Byte magazine. Alpha Products 242-B West Avenue Darien, CT 06820 +1 203 656-1806 -- Classic Quotes from STNG: "Pen Pals" Picard: Her society is aware .. that there is intersteller life? Data: No Sir. Picard: Oooops..
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!texsun!csccat!jack From: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Stepper Motors Keywords: Motor Serial Message-ID: <2918@csccat.UUCP> Date: 11 Jun 89 05:06:33 GMT References: <2668@wpi.wpi.edu> Reply-To: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler) Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Dallas,Texas Lines: 24