Stepper Motor library and example

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Hi all,

The stepper motor library does not state the order in which it drives the pins. Looking at the code, it drives the pins out of order. So code like:

Stepper(steps, pin1, pin2, pin3, pin4)

Will drive the pins in the order: pin1, pin3, pin2, pin4

This means that the code works for stepper motors which have the pins out of order, but fails for stepper motors which have the pins in sequential order. I happen to have a stepper motor where the pins are in sequential order, leading to much confusion when I tried to do the example. It was only by hooking up LEDs and running the example really slowly that I worked out what was wrong.

So could you please:

  1. Update the documentation page: Stepper - Arduino Reference to state exactly what order the pins will be driven in (pin1, pin2, pin3, pin4)

  2. Update the tutorial page: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/MotorKnob to state the same.

  3. Say on both what to do if the stepper motor requires the pins in sequential order (e.g wire it differently or use Stepper(pin1, pin3, pin2, pin4)

Thanks!

JohnFlux