micro-manager is open source software for control and automation of microscope hardware. This is a micro-manager driver for a mechanical stage that uses a grbl controller.
Instead of writing a separate driver for grbl, this patches the existing micro-manager RAMPS driver to use grbl g-code.
Patch micro-manager sources with micro-manager-grbl.patch:
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/micro-manager/micro-manager/
$ cd micro-manager/mmCoreAndDevices/
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/koendv/xy-stage/main/micro-manager/micro-manager-grbl.patch
$ patch -p1 < micro-manager-grbl.patch
patching file DeviceAdapters/CNCMicroscope/RAMPSStage/RAMPS.cpp
patching file DeviceAdapters/CNCMicroscope/RAMPSStage/RAMPS.h
To configure, choose Devices -> Hardware Configuration Wizard.
Select xy stage serial port.
Select only xy stage, not z stage.
Choose Devices -> Device Property Browser to set xy stage speed and acceleration. The values for RAMPSHub-Acceleration are written to grbl registers 120, 121 and 122. The values for RAMPSHub-Velocity are written to grbl registers 110, 111 and 112.
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