Arduino G code + some hostsoftware...on a mac

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So I'm in the planning stages of a 3 axis CNC, just a dremel job for my first one.

I'm trying to sort out my electronics and code while waiting for parts in the mail and I'm hitting lots of walls. I have 3 Nema 17's, 3 easy driver version 4.3 boards and an arduino 328.

I've gotten the steppers moving using the various stepper libraries. I've approximated the settings/scales, feedrates and all that stuff ( I think) in the g code interpreters that I've tried.

I've tried the 1.3 reprap version chris M's rewrite ( with accelerations)

I've actually been able to get my X motor(the only one I have attached to my arduino right now, through an easy driver using only step and dir pins to move when sending Gcode commands from the serial monitor.

okay now problems/questions:

I can't get replicator G to work at all, it generates gcode, then connects to my arduino, and then nothing happens, the control panel wont move my motors at all. When I click enable stepper controls, an orange light blinks on the arduino, but not when I click the jog buttons. When I hit build... nothing, just says it's building...

I found the old processing sketch gcode_host.pde in the 1.2 firmware, but when I send that a job, it only runs the first line... like this
start
sent: GX blah blah blah
got: ok

and then stops there...

I've seen some pretty awesome and well tuned mills on this forum, I'm just curious what you guys use to generate code and send it as a host? Is your code available for that?

Can Replicator G be made to do this function or is all of that extruder/makerbot stuff getting in the way?

thanks a lot, I know... too many questions. :cry:

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so, I'm attempting to use GRBL, but everytime I try to flash my arduino, I get an out of sync error.

Any clues?

It works fine from within the IDE

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I can't get replicator G to work at all, it

Won't work on my mac either. I have contacted the authors but they don't have plain serial systems so they unfortunately can't help much.

I'm attempting to use GRBL,

Can you explain what this is please.

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it seems to be a native c program that runs on the arduino as an interperter, and also a host command line program(bad for me) that runs on a computer and connects over usb.

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I can't get it to flash my arduino using terminal though(using avrdude) I get out of syc erros of 0x6f response. The code changes when I change my baud rate in the updateflash command.

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http://dank.bengler.no/-/page/show/5471_gettinggrbl

what I was referring to.