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Help me make my own "starter kit"

e14 Contributor
e14 Contributor over 13 years ago

Hi'.

 

I'm new to this board, so I'm sorry, if this has been requested thousands of times. I find this site a little confusing.

 

So, I wanna start some experimenting with automation of mechanic, hydraulics and building cnc-machines (routers, lathes, 3d-printer and other robots).

 

 

The beginner kits available seems to target a wide group of arduino-users. It looks like a lot of the things, I'd get would end up collecting dust.

 

So what do I need?

 

It looks to me like I'd need:

Some kind of arduino board

3-4 stepper motors

1 stepper-shield per motor.

 

But is that all?

 

I have various components, from when I used to make tube amps and effect pedals for guitar. So smaller things like jumpers, potentiometers and bread board is already there.

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  • ntewinkel
    ntewinkel over 13 years ago in reply to billabott +2
    Hi billabott, I didn't realize that stepper motors would need pwm. The reference and tutorial don't mention the need for pwm to run stepper motors and the tutorial also uses a non-pwm pin. Am I missing…
  • ntewinkel
    ntewinkel over 13 years ago +1
    Hi smeden! Welcome to e14! I guess there's a fair bit going on, but it looks like you found your way to the best place to ask Arduino questions though! For the starter kit, definitely include a breadboard…
  • billabott
    billabott over 13 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor +1
    Allow me to rephrase that for you: How many PWM pins doth an Uno have in its core? Quoth the PiMan, "Only six, never more." Oh, I am sorry, we were speaking of stepper motors. Digital pulses in phased…
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    e14 Contributor over 13 years ago

    Thanks guys. I think that I got all the information I needed, for now.

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    Thanks guys. I think that I got all the information I needed, for now.

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