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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. MikhailSV

    MikhailSV New Member

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    (Technical translation) Hello. I would like to express my gratitude to the creator of this firmware and instructions. I made a budget 3dof platform of this instruction. Everything works well in SimTools Demo. But since I live in Russia, I had problems with purchasing a license. All payment methods from Russia are blocked by the United States of America and the European Union. Therefore, I downloaded the X-SIM program. And I wanted to ask here whether this 3dof firmware will work on Arduino Uno in X-SIM? For me, the program is complex and incomprehensible. I can’t set it up in any way. Please help me with the setup. Thank you.
    MikhailSV, May 25, 2025
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  2. shankar sarkar

    shankar sarkar New Member

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    Please...may be i m missing something...wii you please guide me how i wire my 3rd motor.
    shankar sarkar, Jun 11, 2025 at 08:50
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  3. Attyla.pl

    Attyla.pl Active Member

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    Do not use a third motor, the arduino has limitations and controlling a third motor is inefficient. It is better to use a second arduino, all motion platform programs have support for multiple arduinos simultaneously.
    Attyla.pl, Jun 13, 2025 at 12:30
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  4. Joe Cortexian

    Joe Cortexian Active Member Gold Contributor

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    Unless you modify SMC3 there is no impact on performance for the third motor. Still reads the analog input, still runs at 4k still does computation for the third motor. If you comment it out it will just spend more time in idle loop because the PID calculation relies on it being 4k.
    Joe Cortexian, Jun 13, 2025 at 15:13
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  5. Joe Cortexian

    Joe Cortexian Active Member Gold Contributor

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    Not sure what you mean. There are signals provided for all three motors you just wire it according to the documentation at the start of this thread.
    Joe Cortexian, Jun 13, 2025 at 15:17
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  6. shankar sarkar

    shankar sarkar New Member

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    what i mean is - the diagram which i got from the diagram from the documentation of smc3 shows only two motors and 2 IBT-2 i was wondering about the third motor.. PWM will be the next one i.e. Pin 11 but the other two ?
    shankar sarkar, Jun 13, 2025 at 17:14
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  7. shankar sarkar

    shankar sarkar New Member

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    this is what i have

    Attached Files:

    shankar sarkar, Jun 13, 2025 at 17:14
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  8. Joe Cortexian

    Joe Cortexian Active Member Gold Contributor

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    Literally the first page of this post.
    Joe Cortexian, Jun 13, 2025 at 18:05
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  9. Pietbrok85

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    The other pins are 6 and 7 on the arduino board when i am not mistaken.
    upload_2025-6-13_19-25-35.png
    • Informative Informative x 1
    Pietbrok85, Jun 13, 2025 at 19:21
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  10. shankar sarkar

    shankar sarkar New Member

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    I'M SO SORRY...no really i mean it... i straight went to the diagram never gave a look at the one you have shown...Thanks buddy.

    Regards

    shankar
    shankar sarkar, Jun 13, 2025 at 21:38
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