Dear All, I'm looking into building drilling and milling head for my Prusa and need to control a DC motor. I'm using Gen7 electronics and Teacup firmware for printing and my initial prototype of the head is driving the motor using heater2 (bed). I'm just setting bed temperature to anything non-zero and off it goes with 12V raw power. The problem is that I can't control the speed of the motor. This page gives an indication that Teacup firmware has 'untested' DC motor control functionality. However, there's nothing about in on Teacup Firmware wiki page, nor does Google find anything interesting. So two questions for the community: 1) What is 'DC motor control' in Teacup firmware and how to put it into use? (Hey, I volunteer for testing!) 2) Is it possible to somehow use the function with Gen7 electronics without major modification? https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?146,139514,139514#msg-139514 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:15:12 -0400 Phorum 5.2.23 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?146,139514,140100#msg-140100 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?146,139514,140100#msg-140100 Igor Lobanov Firmware - mainstream and related support Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:24:36 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?146,139514,139961#msg-139961 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?146,139514,139961#msg-139961
To get an adjustable DC motor, you need to connect the motor to one of the PWM-able pins. Both heater outputs of the Gen7 do this. Then, uncomment #define TEMP_NONE in config.h and define a heater with thermistor type TT_NONE. I've attached a config.h which has no heaters, just a DC motor configured.

To control the motor, use M104 S0 ... M104 S255.]]> Traumflug Firmware - mainstream and related support Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:19:40 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?146,139514,139514#msg-139514 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?146,139514,139514#msg-139514
I'm looking into building drilling and milling head for my Prusa and need to control a DC motor. I'm using Gen7 electronics and Teacup firmware for printing and my initial prototype of the head is driving the motor using heater2 (bed). I'm just setting bed temperature to anything non-zero and off it goes with 12V raw power.

The problem is that I can't control the speed of the motor. This page gives an indication that Teacup firmware has 'untested' DC motor control functionality. However, there's nothing about in on Teacup Firmware wiki page, nor does Google find anything interesting.

So two questions for the community:
1) What is 'DC motor control' in Teacup firmware and how to put it into use? (Hey, I volunteer for testing!)
2) Is it possible to somehow use the function with Gen7 electronics without major modification?]]> Igor Lobanov Firmware - mainstream and related support Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:17:54 -0400