Making my own EtherCAT device

This repository contains software, pcb shematics and layouts, reference documentation etc that I used during the creation of my own EtherCAT device.

This job is documented in a series of Youtube videos, from my first attempts to understand how EtherCAT works, to making my own pcb, program it and testing it in LinuxCNC.

Make my own EtherCat device 5. The lathe is alive

I hook up the EaserCAT 2000 board to my mini-lathe and make it work. Documentation is available here, please select the Video5 branch.

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Make my own EtherCat device 4. The PCB is here

In this video it starts to be interesting. I have got the pcb and I try to make it work. Now I finally make documentation available, see this folder.

Make my own EtherCAT device 3. Encoder

I made a rudimentary EtherCAT encoder module. To test it I need something better than my test setup so I start to design my own PCB to be used for testing with LinuxCNC.

Make my own EtherCAT device. 2. MCU and SPI

Testing the SPI connection between the MCU and the LAN9252 chip. Get into state diagrams for EtherCAT and for CIA402.

Make my own EtherCAT device. 1 Digital IO

My first tries with the LAN9252 chip. Getting accustomed to some tools.