Most of my firmware applications will have a very simple real time operating system running in the background and calling one out of eight tasks every 250 us. What this means is that each task is called every 2 ms,…

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I was recently asked to document the system that I use to control stepper motors (or any motor, for that matter) by sending serial commands with a computer. I realize the concept can be intimidating, but is really not that…

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