PyMDrive

PyMDrive is a python driver for MDrive motors. It has wrappers for standard commands (home, move absolute, move relative, etc.) and any other MCode command can be added easily.

Installation

It is easiest to install with pip: pip install pymdrive

You can also install with uv by cloning the repo and using uv sync.

Usage

To get started do

from pymdrive import MdriveAxis, MdriveComm

COMM = MdriveComm("COM3")
await COMM.start()

X = MdriveAxis(comm=COMM, name="X")
Y = MdriveAxis(comm=COMM, name="Y")

This initializes the COMM and starts its asynchronous queue for processing commands without race conditions. The COMM is then passed to Axis instances where the names are those specified on the motors memory.

From there, you can send standard commands

await X.move_relative(1000)

await Y.move_absolute(0)

There's a testing.ipynb notebook in the tests directory with these and other commands.