Forum >stepper motor on 2A motor shield
stepper motor on 2A motor shield
nilz 2011-12-26 14:00:54 4919 Views2 Replies I am curious if it is possible to hook up an bipolar stepper motor with 4 wires to the 2A motor shield. I thought it would be possible because you need to use an H-bridge like you do when using dc-motors and the official arduino motor shield has the capability to control one stepper motor. So, is it possible and how can i control the stepper motor?
2011-12-27 13:57:01 Thanks for the link. I actually had it working, but the steppermotor was being powered via usb rather then external power (guess I didn't had the battery turned on), so the stepper was making noise but didn't have enough power to actually rotate, so i immediately thought that my wiring/coding was wrong. thanks for helping me out on christmas ;) nilz
nilz 2011-12-27 01:44:30 Hi Nilz,
It should be possible to use our motorcontrollers to drive stepper motors. It just depends on the size of the stepper motor. Here is an article from lady ada which details the process.
[url=http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/use.html]http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/use.html[/url] Hector
It should be possible to use our motorcontrollers to drive stepper motors. It just depends on the size of the stepper motor. Here is an article from lady ada which details the process.
[url=http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/use.html]http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/use.html[/url]
Hector 