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I am trying to control a Nema 17 motor with a L298n dual bridge and an Arduino Mega. My wiring is from this Instructable: http://www.instructables.com/id/Control-DC-and-stepper-motors-with-L298N-...
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I am designing a driver for a Bipolar stepper motor using Arduino Mega 2560 and DRV8825 Stepper driver. In my application, a stepper motor (Nema 24) will run for 5 minutes and stop for 2 minutes. I ...
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I, at the moment am trying to come up with a simple way where I can program an Arduino to provide a step signal with a given frequency, at a specific time. The frequency has to be ramped up, and ...
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So, I have been following this tutorial on how to run a stepper motor with Arduino using an A4988 Stepper Driver. This is the tutorial: How To Control a Stepper Motor with A4988 Driver and Arduino. I ...
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I'm using a Nema 17 stepper motor (200 steps) and a DRV8825 motor driver. This is the configuration I am using: I am using a 9 V power supply. The dirPin is connected to pin 3 on the Arduino board, ...
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At the moment I am working on a code that should send a plateau to a certain position and back. The plateau is being moved by the stepper, in my case a Nema 17 with a Polulu DRV8825 driver. Everything ...
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I've designed an apparatus that uses stepper motors, and they are linked together so that when armature A turns, it consequently moves armature B by a ratio of 1/4. In order to keep armature B in the ...
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This is my first project working with stepper motors, so I may have a bit of a shaky understanding of the electronic side of the project. I'm trying to create a simple device with 4 buttons connected ...
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On the instructions for this motor driver, it says that motors can be put to sleep by "pulling a pin low". SLP - Logic Input. When pulled LOW, outputs are disabled and power consumption is minimized....
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I seem to have an unbelievable thing. My code was working perfectly on one arduino, when i upload the same sketch to another one, it is behaving strangely, it seems like it is not reading any of my ...
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Hello guys I am trying to count the number of the steps of a stepper motor with an encoder (Avago heds). I found an Arduino sketch to count that steps and display them on the console and I found ...
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I am at the moment trying to make a bipolar stepper motor move. I am interfacing it through a control board, which takes the input Step, Dir, En, and 5V. I am providing those input signal via an ...
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I am running a Nema 23 motor with an Arduino Uno and a microstepper driver. I am making a torsional vibration demo, which uses a series of springs connected to the motor driveshaft to spin gears. ...
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I want to use this library: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/Stepper #include <Stepper.h> The wiring for my driver is shown here: https://www.pololu.com/product/1182 From the library, I'm ...
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I have a question about driving a stepper motor back and forward. Basically I want it to do a total of 24 steps (12 forward and 12 back) but I don't want to repeat the same steps when coming back. So ...
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I have the code below which is my attempt to control a stepper motor direction that moves a carriage to the right and left. In addition there are limits at each end of the travel that when activated ...
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having strange behavior with motor shield and steppers. when i'm trying to make onestep, motor just makes some high-frequent noise, but when i add Serial.println for debugging, it moves as intended. ...
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I want to turn on my motor and count how many total rounds it has until my limit switch is switched on. After that, I want to count rounds counterclockwise until another limit switch is pushed. For ...
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When i run the code on the Arduino the Stepper only does a small turn every cycle. How can i make that constantly turning? #include <Servo.h> Servo myservo; // create servo object to control ...
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I am completely new to Arduino, and all sorts of hardware and software. I have a stepper motor, which I want to rotate by a number of rotations when I press a button, and then go backwards by a number ...
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I am trying to control my stepper motor using arduino duemilanove, with L293D as H-bridge. I use a NEMA 17, stepper motor 42BYGH-036B I have used both the default example program from arduino IDE, and ...
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I have a 28BYJ 48, 5V stepper motor. After some trial and error I got it working with the all the sample examples in Arduino IDE. However when I increase the speed of the motor using setSpeed() ...
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I am having issues with interfacing my stepper motor, connected to a control board being this one Due to some reason I am not able to move it, unless I remove the enable signal. I can change the ...
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I am currently using an Adafruit motor shield on my arduino uno for the first time. The idea is turning the stepper motor with basicly 1RPM. But i just cant do it. This is the first time working with ...
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I am currently working on a project that makes a plateua move back and forth using a stepper motor. On this plateau I have attached LEDs that create patterns. However, the plateau should be moving ...
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