Hi, I'm just starting off my journey through DIY CNC milling, and I was hoping for some help, since Google has failed me .
I have a bunch of servo motors that I am modifying to use a 15-turn potentiometer. I am not having trouble with that. it is hooked up to a little test circuit with a 556 timer and big control potentiometer on it. That works great.
The problem is that I want to now hook the servo up to my computer's serial port and have Mach3 turn it. It doesn't have to be perfect right now, I just want a proof of concept. Stepper motors can be controlled via the serial port with just some simple components wired up without any microcontrollers or anything like that. How can I do the same for a servo motor? I don't want to have to buy and program an arduino or pololu or whatever, I just want it to connect to the port and take commands directly with mach3 running it.
What do you think?
Thanks in advance!