This posting is rather short as it points to a longer one. I had the honor of being the Featured Engineer at the online Electrical Engineering Community magazine EE WEB. You can find the published article / interview HERE. EE WEB…
Category: Embedded Systems
Everything related to embedded system design, microcontrollers, coding and hardware, etc.
Controlling a Motor With Your Computer Part IV: The Hardware Side
I have documented how to take your computer, stuff a five byte data packet and send it serially to your microcontroller through your serial port. Awesome! But wait! Computers just don’t have a serial port any more. How useless can…
Controlling a Motor With Your Computer Part III The Windows Application Side
This posting may be semi wrongly titled. It refers to a Windows Application as that is what I will detail, but the truth is you can use any application on any OS. If you prefer Linux, I imagine there are…
Controlling a Motor With Your Computer Part II The Firmware Side
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,…
Controlling a Motor With Your Computer PART I
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…