backbone:
then all you need to do is decouple the reading of the scale from the individual steps of the motor.
You mean controlling the stepper with its own controller?
No. Based on the numbers you have supplied all I mean is that you get the stepper to move 10 steps at 0.01 second intervals between each reading of the scale. If I recall correctly, your earlier code only moved it one step between each reading.
...R