Teknic Clearcore PC Interface

A client once asked if we could develop a software tool that quickly allowed them to jog the motors on a Clearcore stepper motor controller made by Teknic. On their company’s website, they don’t offer any out-of-the-box solutions for simple motor jogging. Because we were familiar with that motor controller, we offered to do it quickly and inexpensively.

We wrote some C++ code that could be deployed to the Clearcore controller that would receive and parse a message through the serial connection. We created serial commands for setting the velocity of a motor, setting the acceleration of a motor, reading the velocity and acceleration settings, and jogging a motor a specified number of steps.

The operator can move the motor forward or backward using the provided buttons. The software also allows the user to use the q,a,w,s,e, and d keys to jog the motors. The PC software was created in LabVIEW and features a multi-loop, queued-message-handler architecture.

The project took about eight hours to complete starting with the Optozilla queued message handler project template.

Need to control a Teknic Clearcore controller from a PC? We will be happy to share this software with you! Contact us and we can make arrangements.