/technologies/motors-and-drives/b/blog/posts/trinamic-stepper-motor-controller-tmc2300---c-custom-firmware-pt-1-datagram-classesThe firmware has drastically changed between this post and the next. I&#39;m not updating what I&#39;ve changed here, and left the firmware attached. For those interested, it can show the evolution of a design in progress.The biggest change is that w...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/motors-and-drives/b/blog/posts/trinamic-stepper-motor-controller-tmc2300---c-custom-firmware-pt-1-datagram-classesSun, 16 Feb 2020 22:42:04 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:86333b8d-c6d7-4246-9220-b739c4151971DAB0<p>Good post Jan.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=8697&AppID=32&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/technologies/motors-and-drives/b/blog/posts/trinamic-stepper-motor-controller-tmc2300---c-custom-firmware-pt-1-datagram-classesSat, 15 Feb 2020 17:37:04 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:86333b8d-c6d7-4246-9220-b739c4151971Jan Cumps0<p>The firmware has drastically changed between this post and the next. I&#39;m not updatingthis post with what I&#39;ve changed, and left the firmware attached. For those interested, it can show the evolution of a design in progress.</p><p>The biggest change is that when I was reading the examples on the website and the logs&nbsp; of the IDE, I thought I could send TMCL commands to the motor driver.</p><p>But that&#39;s not the case.</p><p>You either have have to implement the TMLC datagram to TMC2300 datagram translation in your firmware (it&#39;s not difficult - Trinamic has a full-fledged example on GitHub),</p><p>or use the lower level TMC3200 datagrams, something I&#39;m doing in the next blogpost.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=8697&AppID=32&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">