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Originally Posted by Astrofriend
Hi Bojan,
Sorry for late answer, I missed it. My friend using a OStep to his motor focuser and looks promissing. Now I already have the AstroEQ and want to test it first.
Your own design, doesn't it load the computer a lot when it has to part of the work to drive the stepper motor ?
/Lars
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Lars,
My design featured in the post
#61 is just stepper driver that fits inside EQ6.
Obviously, something has to supply STEP-DIR pulses to move motors. For that purpose I have OnStep
controller that runs on MEGA or STM32 boards, I mounted them in separate hand-paddles with buttons and other necessary connectors and h/w. But it can be anything, including PC running applications like Bartels, SoundStepper.. or whatever else.I was also playing with AstroEQ, I even have PCB design and actual board(s) that fits inside EQ6 done, but never used it because roughly at the same time I found OnSTEP to be more flexible and cheaper to build.