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woody4325:
Anymore consideration given to creating a version of MRotate that supports a USB port rather than a printer port?
Thanks.

DaOld Man:

--- Quote from: woody4325 on June 30, 2015, 02:47:32 pm ---Anymore consideration given to creating a version of MRotate that supports a USB port rather than a printer port?
Thanks.

--- End quote ---

Hmmmm. It has been thought of.
What sort of device (drive) do you have that communicates through USB?

I played around with using a PIC chip, but never finished it:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,110083.0.html

DaOld Man:
Where have my manners gone?
Just noticed you are new here.
Welcome to the forum.
This is the most time consuming, head scratching, finger scraping, and wallet draining hobby you can ever get into, but it is more than worth it.
Please don't be afraid to ask for advice or help, thats why we all are here.

You may now bow to Saint, for starting this knowledge packed forum.  :notworthy: LOL

darthpaul:

--- Quote from: DaOld Man on July 01, 2015, 02:40:41 am ---
This is the most time consuming, head scratching, finger scraping, and wallet draining hobby you can ever get into, but it is more than worth it.
Please don't be afraid to ask for advice or help, thats why we all are here.

You may now bow to Saint, for starting this knowledge packed forum.  :notworthy: LOL

--- End quote ---
Amen to that Ken

Samson:
There are some USB to RS232 breakout boards that can also be used for general purpose IO. 

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-ft232h-breakout/overview

http://hackaday.com/2009/09/22/introduction-to-ftdi-bitbang-mode/

The 232h breakout seems to offer more IO pins than some of the others.

The FTDI drivers are free, and there are application notes on how to use the gpio functions.  Might not be too difficult to incorporate into mrotate.

Of course these just offer IO, you still need a motor driver circuit.

Koz

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