Control Motors first release

• Control stepper motors
• Arduino firmware from Romi project (https://github.com/romi)
• Control via serial, python or Graphical User Interface
• supports X,Y,Z and homing
• elementary testing

Authors: Peter Hanappe, Aliénor Lahlou, Ali Ruyer-Thompson

ControlMotors v0.1.0

ControlMotors provides a Python API and Tkinter GUI to drive multi‑axis stages via an Arduino running the Oquam firmware.

Highlights

ControlStage class for X/Y/Z motion with gear ratios and backlash handling.

Tkinter GUI with:

• COM‑port selection and connection status.
• Per‑axis move buttons, homing, and gear configuration.

Arduino firmware integration:

• Oquam sketch and gshield.h pin mapping.
• Documented RomiSerial commands for low‑level testing from the Arduino Serial Monitor.

Testing:

• Unit tests (no hardware) via python run_tests.py.
• Optional interactive hardware tests with python run_tests.py --with-hardware.

Executable:

• Windows standalone executable Built by CI for this tag and attached to this release.
• Requires an Arduino flashed with Oquam and wiring consistent with gshield.h.