look at pwmgen.
http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.3/html/man/man9/pwmgen.9.html
it has a pwm up/down mode.

I have goofed around with it a bit..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUmFKOVepYY

sam

Ian W. Wright wrote:
> Thanks Dave and Kirk for your suggestions, they are food for 
> thought. The little motor I have will be powerful enough for 
> the time being and runs at 10,000rpm - almost all the 
> milling I do is with cutters of 3/16 and under - mostly 1mm 
> or less. I won't be using the motor as the spindle - I have 
> a nice ball-raced spindle that I made with preloaded races, 
> and so I will be belt driving it at almost 1:1 ratio. I did 
> think I had seen a reference to just hooking the parallel 
> port to a FET but I couldn't locate the reference again and 
> I am a bit hesitant about getting high power so close to the 
> parallel port. I will probably try an H-bridge of FETs or 
> power transistors with some buffering between that and the 
> parallel port. Has anyone figured out how to output forward 
> and reverse PWM signals yet or a PWM signal with two other 
> pins giving a forward and reverse signal? I noticed one post 
> mentioning PDM - what's that?
> Thanks,  Ian
>
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