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Tutorial SMC3 Arduino 3DOF Motor Driver and Windows Utilities

Discussion in 'SimTools compatible interfaces' started by RufusDufus, Dec 1, 2013.

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  1. prophet.id

    prophet.id BOSeTAMPER's Rotary Servo 6dof Build

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    Y

    But I was still confused why Roll always on Axis 1, Pitch on Axis 2, Yaw on Axis 3, etc. Is this relate with the 'Generic 3D rotating' I am using? Sort of a template that is specific for 6DOF, maybe?
    [​IMG]

    Perhaps, I need to use "Generic 2D advance" Axis plugin, so I can follow your approach?
    prophet.id, Feb 21, 2025
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    May I suggest you start by mapping USB controller allocations, please see the FAQs here: https://www.xsimulator.net/community/faq/simtools-usb-issues-can-cause-crashes.313/
    noorbeast, Mar 5, 2025
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  3. Pietbrok85

    Pietbrok85 New Member

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    With the command:
    //#define REVERSE_MOTOR1 I can reverse the direction of motor1, How can i change motor direction for Motor 2 or Motor3 (motor output and hall sensor input) without do any rewiring.
    Arduino Uno R3, SMC Utils V1.0
    Thanks for any help! Kind regards, Piet

    p.s. I found that the change in motor direction is automatically corrected in SimTools (V3) so no need to change it in SMC3
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    Pietbrok85, Mar 7, 2025
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    I am curious. I have uploaded the smc3 sketch to my Arduino. Then I tuned the motors with smc3ultility. How does this affect the sketch on the Arduino? I think not?
    Do I need to changes the values from smc3utility in the sketch myself?

    anyway I did change the sketch manual. But I could not find every value setting from smc3ultily in my smc3 sketch. Because of other names? Is there a conversion list so I don’t make mistakes?

    whatever I did, it is working.. but I want to tweak my settings and am not sure this above.
    Jodino, Mar 14, 2025
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  5. prophet.id

    prophet.id BOSeTAMPER's Rotary Servo 6dof Build

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    I believe those 'saved values on the Utility' are stored in the ROM memory in the Arduino board.
    Any tweaking of the SMC3 firmware (as motor's parameters) is only possible on the Utility app.
    prophet.id, Mar 14, 2025
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    I did not read about this.
    Ok, So they might overrule the sketch settings?
    Jodino, Mar 14, 2025
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    noorbeast, Mar 15, 2025
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    SMC3Utils automatically saves the engine settings in Arduino memory, sketch .smc3.ino you upload only once and you do all the settings in SMC3Utils which saves them autmatically
    Attyla.pl, Mar 15, 2025
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  9. prophet.id

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    prophet.id, Mar 19, 2025 at 21:41
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  10. noorbeast

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    Thanks so much for sharing your work :thumbs

    I have added it to the SMC3 section of the FAQs, with credit to yourself: https://www.xsimulator.net/community/faq/arduino-code-for-use-with-various-hardware-and-simtools.31/
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    noorbeast, Mar 19, 2025 at 22:56
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    prophet.id, Mar 19, 2025 at 23:09
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