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What type of stepper motor should I use in my project and how do I control them?
I'm building a video camera pan and tilt head. Here's what I'm getting at:
I'll need one motor to control the horizontal rotation of the camera, and one for the vertical. The horizontal motor ...
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Arduino Motor Shield for 12v stepper motor
new to the forums here!
I'm making a basic rig for timelapse photography using arduino.
It is a panning system for a DSLR camera, so I went with the motor shield from Arduino with the L298 chip and ...
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What kind of power supply can power this stepper motor connected to an Arduino?
Stepper Bipolar circut: http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/StepperBipolarCircuit
I have this bipolar stepper motor "Stepper motor - 200 steps/rev, 12V 350mA - " which i am connecting to an Arduino. The ...
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Have I missed something when connecting this stepper motor?
I have an Arduino which I am using to control this stepper motor using a breadboard with this layout. I have the Arduino connected to my Mac and it successfully runs, but the "force" of the motor ...
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Can a motor driver for 5V be used for a 24V motor?
I’m controlling a 5V motor with Arduino but need more torque which means a more powerful motor. Here is my scheme. (I took it form a tutorial):
Here Arduino is controlling a 5V unipolar stepper ...
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Actuating a pneumatic solenoid manifold with Arduino
I need to programmatically actuate 5 pneumatic solenoids. Would it be feasible to do this by coupling a sufficient number of driver boards like one would use with stepper motors (i.e EasyDriver) to ...
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How to drive stepper motor at maximum speed with a higher voltage power supply in hand?
I had a question about "Wantai" Stepper Motor with an Arduino hooked up to an motor-shield.
Looking at the spec sheets the max volts and current allowed in that particular stepper motor is 3V and 2A. ...
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stepper motor overheating
I'm using an Arduino to control[1] 2 stepper motors [2][3] (both obtained from scraped printers and I can't seem to find datasheets for them). First I used a 12V 0.5Amp power supply, that worked for ...
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Do I power a stepper motor with 24V and Arduino?
I am building a motorized barn door tracker using an Arduino UNO and a stepper motor I took from an old scanner (Mitsumi M35SP-7T). I have been unable to find the datasheet for this motor ...
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Recording Servo/Motor movement with arduino
Hi I'm really new to Arduino projects and don't really know how to start. I'have to do a project for university. The programming part should be no problem but I don't have any experiance with ...
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smooth a motor movement
i have a stepper motor (controlled by an arduino) that moves some gears and a pulley. the problem is that the pulley jerks a lot: the movement begin and stop too much suddenly. to make the movement ...
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L298 output voltage is too low
I'm trying to use an L298N and an Arduino UNO R3 to drive a bipolar stepper motor.
To simplify things, I'm just trying to get a 12v output from either output-1 or output-2 of the l298 (then I can ...
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Interfacing a DC chopper circuit with Arduino
I am trying to build a stepper motor driver, and I intend to use a DC chopper circuit and a current-sensing resistor to maintain the current through my windings at rated value even at relatively high ...
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Sparkfun's Quadstepmotor driver and different velocity: concurrency problem?
I'm using quadstepper motor board from Sparkfun:
with Arduino Uno / Leonardo. I can currently driver motors at the same time, but I can't change the velocity separately.
I use this code for ...
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What Arduino Board should I Buy For Controlling Stepper Motors for a 3D Printer?
I decided to take on the project of building a 3D printer. I want to go ahead and buy a micro controller so that I can start messing around with it and figuring out how to set it up, but I don't know ...
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hard drive head/seek motor with Arduino?
I can see there are many writings on line for using an Arduino to control a 4 or 6 wire stepper motor, that spins the platter in side an IDE hard drive. I want to control the seek read/write head ...
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basic arduino question - do I need a 555 timer?
I have an Arduino (duemilanove) connected to a floppy disk drive and I can happily control the stepper motor using three pins on the ribbon cable to three digital pins of my Arduino (well 2 + the ...
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Stepper Motor Microstepping with an MCU or Arduino without dedicated Microstepping IC Controller
I'm trying to make a fully configurable stepper motor controller by directly driving the H-bridges with the MCU, like an Atmel Atmega or other MCU, and use current feedback with the built in ADC, ...
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EMC2, Arduino & stepper motors - Have I got this right?
I'm building a CNC mill based on Patrick Hood-Daniel's machines
I'm also playing with Arduinos, and I'm beginning to wonder if I have this right:
I have 5v 1A steppers.
I'll be using EMC2 ...
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How do you read newer HDD motors (DC/Brushless) into arduino? (like stepper motors)
We had a version of the HDDJ working with an arduino reading an old stepper motor (with 4 wires), then sending serial data to processing, using a midi library, and midiox + midiyoke. Having trouble ...
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