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Guest Blog: Designing My Own 3D Printer Mainboard
By Jan Kotarski, Engineer When I bought my 3D printer, a Prusa-like construction, I started upgrading it the same day it arrived. Aside from the mechanical parts (which are completely replaced at this point), the obvious and much needed upgrade was the mainboard, or to be precise – stepper motor drivers. The A4982s are powerful, […]
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Field Bus Systems in Motion Control – Trinamic’s View
Embedded systems are used in various industries and applications for years now, making work – and increasingly everyday life – easier by transforming digital information to physical motion. Lately, companies are focusing their efforts toward further integration of these systems with sensors and copious amounts of data. By doing so, they create cyber-physical systems by […]
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Writing Endless Lines of Code Is a Thing of the Past
What came first… technologies resulting in shorter development cycles, or the need to shorten development cycles resulting in those technologies? Of course, the question doesn’t matter as much as the ongoing result: a technological revolution “that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, […]
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Myths About Motor Control – Myth 3
Small electrical motors are ubiquitous. The human environment is being automated in an increasingly fast pace, driven by the desire for safety, security and health, fueled by an aging population in the highest developed countries, gadgets that go mainstream, and by new manufacturing trends that characterize the 4th Industrial Revolution. Every day, we see new, […]
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Myths About Motor Control – Myth 2
Small electrical motors are ubiquitous. The human environment is being automated in an increasingly fast pace, driven by the desire for safety, security and health, fueled by an aging population in the highest developed countries, gadgets that go mainstream, and by new manufacturing trends that characterize the 4th Industrial Revolution. Every day, we see new, […]
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Myths About Motor Control – Myth 1
Small electrical motors are ubiquitous. The human environment is being automated in an increasingly fast pace, driven by the desire for safety, security and health, fueled by an aging population in the highest developed countries, gadgets that go mainstream, and by new manufacturing trends that characterize the 4th Industrial Revolution. Every day, we see new, […]