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Please review the Dragonframe Setup on the SmartSystem site.

Our DFMoco sketch for Arduino is not compatible with motor shields. The comments at the beginning of the sketch specify which output pins it uses for step and direction. You will have to make your own connection to motor drivers.

The device shows up in the list, but the connection attempt fails immediately. This is usually due to invalid permissions on the device. For udev-based systems, you can resolve this by adding rules for the device. Open a terminal: cd /etc/udev/rules.d Create a file to hold the FTDI rules: sudo nano 90-dragonframe-ftdi.rules And add the … Read more

Many devices, including our own, use a VCP (virtual COM port) chip from FTDI to communicate with a computer.The driver situation for this type of device is a little bit messy. For Windows, you should not need to install drivers, but you can install the VCP drivers from FTDI if you want. For Ubuntu, you … Read more

Most hardware vendors integrate to Dragonframe using our DFMoco protocol (the same that we offer for free as Arduino code). The is a non real-time protocol. It provides shoot-move-shoot motion control, and is sufficient for almost all stop-motion animation. The eMotimo spectrum ST4 is the first third-party system to directly implement our real-time protocol. This … Read more