Hi guys, been a while.

Since my site has broken and I badly needed to update the PICStep project page I thought I'd take the opportunity to also clean up the firmware and implement some of the features I thought would make it a little bit nicer.

You can find more details and pre-compiled firmwares here:

PICStep V3.0, PICStep gets a firmware update! | www.fromorbit.com

With this new version the two mode switches usage has slightly:
  • The MODE1 switch now selects between only two pre-select micro-stepping modes in the firmware (my pre-compiled version are for 1/16 and 1/8, 1/8 and 1/4, 1/4 and 1/2).
  • The MODE2 switch now turns the motor current reducing time-out function on or off. So you can now disabled the time-out if you know you have a long jobs to run and don't want a motor to turn off.


The firmware also has other compile time options like:
  • Current reduction can be switch between 50% or motor off completely
  • The time-out time can be switches from 3min, 6min, 12min, 24min, 48min, 1h 36min, 3h 12min


Plus I've added the PICStep project to GitHub in case anyone would like to contribute any changes and feature they may have made over the years.

Anyway hope you like it.

Alan.