There are three options to program the lococube®.
In any case the software is free-of-charge.

• Basic programming knowledge -> miCon-L
• Basic C programming knowledge -> Arduino
• C programming experience -> KEIL MDK

The intuitive graphical Programming Suite miCon-L opens up a variety of options for both beginners and professional users achieving the shortes possible time-to-market for your project.
The miCon-L forum provides all information you need to get fast and easily in touch with this outstanding software tool which is preinstalled on all BARTH® lococube®s.

http://micon-l.de

Yes, it is possible to directly connect an unipolar Stepper Motor (e.g. RS Art. No. 191-8299) to a STG-8xx lococube®. Simply write your program in miCon-L, C-Code or within the Arduino IDE to get full control of the stepper motor. So you get an easy an cheap solution for small Motion & Control Applications. A set of free demo programs are available HERE.

Each STG-8xx lococube® features a serial TTL-232 Port (3.3V). This port allows usage as classical RS-232 interface when C Programming is used. You only need a hub to change TTL to RS-232 voltage level. Using the miCon-L Software Suite the serial interface is reserved for software communication only.

Several of our customers use a lococube® in combination with LabView. It is very easy to integrate your lococube® within LabView using the CAN communication interface. Simply use a CAN/USB adapter to interface the lococube® to your PC. The CAN protocol should contain the parameters and values to be shared with the LabView software.

1 Mbit/s -> 25 m
800 kbit/s -> 50 m
500 kbit/s -> 100 m
250 kbit/s -> 250 m
125 kbit/s -> 500 m
50 kbit/s -> 1000 m

There are four options to mount or fasten a lococube®.
The related products can be found here.
You can fasten the lococube®:

• With DIN Rail Kit HA-30
• With DIN Rail Bracket HA-18
• With two M4 screws
• With cable ties (3.6mm)

The lococube® models supporting IrDA provide a reliable wireless infrared interface reading out and setting user-defined parameter from the internal memory. The Parameter Programmer PG-65 is the tool of choice to communicate with the IrDA lococube® models.

Please also have a look at the following article:

Wireless Communications in Industrial Environment

The following connector type is used:
Manufacturer: Phoenix Contact
Type: COMBICON FMC1.5
Pitch: 3.5mm

Depending on the type of lococube® the connectors are green or black colored.

The PIC18® based lococube®s use green connectors. All ARM® Cortex® Models use black connectors. Connector type and pitch are always the same.

Due to a small positive leakage current an output without any load will let you measure a voltage. A slight load to ground (e.g. 1mA) will cause a zero voltage at any low-stated output.

The STG-600´s USB interface is connected as followed (from left to right):

1 = +5VDC
2 = D+
3 = D-
4 = GND