HELP: Alternative use for repraps eletronics

Hi,
I've have amount 4 printers now, so I have a lot of spare electronics.
I remembered I could motorize my camera slider with it.
The mechanical part is almost done, I'm still deciding if I use a threaded rod or some pulleys to move the slider.

What I want: to use the arduino+LCD module (I have one of those with a rotary and SDcard, but I dont really need the SDcard part) to power the motor to make my slider...slide
What I need is to find out the quickest way to connect a polulu and the LCD/sdcard module directly to arduino without the ramps.
I realize it shouldn't be much difficult, I would only need to trace the connections from the ramps to the arduino, but if someone has done it already and knows what connects to where, it would save me a lot of time.

And the the firmware part... I would need a simple LCD interface where I would select items from the menus (like I have on my printers with Marlin).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is what you would need to connect your arduino to the the LCD, and polulu boards...

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But as I recall there are additional electronics on the RAMPS board such as a capacitor that goes under the polulu connectors that are involved in some way with the stepper driver.

you could also get a cheaper stepper shield and use it instead.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/23/2015 01:19PM by thetazzbot.

Great help...thanks...

IMHO, just use the ramps board. Dirt cheap. and expandable.

Also, the "heater" outputs could be used for lighting or fans. Pulse width modulation is great for controlling those type of things as well as DC motors.