Hi I want to build a positive pressure vac former which has ballscrews and linear slides powered by an arduino. I need a simple control system.
I need to run 2 nema 23's say 10000 steps one way, hold at full torque for 30 seconds then reverse 10000 steps. I also need to trigger a solenoid (The compressed air) for say 10 seconds all these figures are wild guesses and would need to be tweaked once built to find what actually works.
I will have a cnc shield, Uno and 24v power supply for this project but I also have a spare Ramps, Mega and 12v if more suitable. Steppers will be cheap Poulou.
What's the easiest solution I can see with grbl I can stream gcode for the stepper easy enough but how do I also control the solenoid? I consider using the feed from the Z axis to turn the solenoid on does this sound reasonable? Is there a Gcode I can use to trigger an output for X seconds that I can then use the output to trigger a solenoid?
I'm guessing the Arduino code to do this is pretty simple but have no idea where to start the last time I looked at code it was basic on my commodore 64 lol.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/14/2017 05:00AM by Desertboy.
