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I am a neewbie here so don't cush me yet but I have a question concering stepper motors and Microcontrollers (more specificaly PIC16F84A). Does anyone know how to Inteface these two devices? Steppers - http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9238 Microcontroller - http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en010230 Thanks in advance - James

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The PIC16F84A is a dinosaur. Why start by learning an obsolete chip? finitesite.com/d3jsys/16F628.html – markrages♦ Mar 22 '11 at 4:15
@markrages ahahaahaha...thanks man...I will be sure to try it out :) – James Dyson Mar 22 '11 at 7:58

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This should do what you want:

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10267

You will need to connect the Direction and Step pins to I/O pins on the microcontroller.

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Thanks alot...:) – James Dyson Mar 22 '11 at 3:01

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