Hello all,
I'm looking into stepper/driver board kits, and need to make a decision soon. I'm purchasing an X2 from Harbor freight and want a NEMA 23 stepper set up. From what I'm finding most are set up for parallel ports. My HP laptop runs Vista and has no parallel port. I did find adapter cables on the net for linking a USB into Parallel port printers. Has anyone tried this? Would I be better off to use my ancient PC for my controler? I'm planning on using Mach3. Thanks!
JJ