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Arduino Motor Shield & Canakit Stepper Motor

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Hi

 

I am newbie and I am working on my first robot but I am stuck, I bought canakit stepper motor but cannot find any instructions to connec the canakit steppe motor;

 

Please Help

 

Gupta

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    well, it`s not Plug`n`Play like some of the shields that have the SIL headers on, that simply fit onto the arduino itself, but it`s almost as easy if you can solder.

     

    you`ll need your 4 stepper wires to go onto the board, these are usually organised by color.

    you`ll need 2 Grounds, one for the Arduino, and one for the motors power supply, these will often be commoned.

    you`ll need your 5v power from the arduino board, and a seperate power source for the motor, Dont try and run the motor from the arduinos Power supply you`ll blow the regulator!

    then you`ll need to elect some arduino pins  for the motors control logic, these can be anything from basic Clock and Direction pins, or direct switching whereby you present the step code yourself, a typical 4 bit bipolar number sequence would be; 9, 5, 6, 10. and then of course the reverse of that sequence to turn the other direction.

    You may have an option for limit switches, you can ignore that for now though.