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Im using stepper motors in a rat sculpture. Im trining the rats to use the feeding systems and activate the doors.
Only thing I need help with the code for the stepper motor as I am a newb and totally useless atm.
The 5v stepper motor is wired to a L293d and that is wired upto my D arduino
The rats will press the button activating the stepper motor which will turn xx amount of steps then it will pause for X seconds and reverse x steps to original
This is what I was doing last

#include <Stepper.h>

// change this to the number of steps on your motor
#define STEPS 100

// create an instance of the stepper class, specifying
// the number of steps of the motor and the pins it's
// attached to
Stepper stepper(STEPS, 8, 9, 10, 11);

// the previous reading from the analog input
int previous = 0;

void setup()
{
  // set the speed of the motor to 30 RPMs
  stepper.setSpeed(30);
}

void loop()
{
  // get the sensor value
  int val = analogRead(0);

  // move a number of steps equal to the change in the
  // sensor reading
  stepper.step(val - previous);

  // remember the previous value of the sensor
  previous = val;
}

Heres a photo of the Piece


ANY HELP IS SERIOUSLY APPRECIATED

[Reply #1 on:]

So you want to take out the analogRead() and use a button instead?  You just need to de-bounce the button

Code:

void loop() {
    static unsigned long lastButtonTime = 0;
    static boolean lastButtonState = false;

    boolean newButtonState = digitaRead(buttonPin);
    unsigned long currentTime = millis();

    // Make sure it has been at least 100 milliseconds since the last button change to filter out bounces
    if (newButtonState != lastButtonState && currentTime-lastButtonTime > 100) [
        lastButtonTime = currentTime;
        lastButtonState = newButtonState;
        if (newButtonState) {  // Fresh button press
             stepper.step(XX);
             delay(X*1000); // Wait X seconds
             stepper.step(-XX);
        }
    }
}

[Reply #2 on:]

This is what I have right now, it tells me that Digital read was not declared in this scope?? Thanks a mill for the reply 

#include <Stepper.h>

// change this to the number of steps on your motor
#define STEPS 100

// create an instance of the stepper class, specifying
// the number of steps of the motor and the pins it's
// attached to
Stepper stepper(STEPS, 8, 9, 10, 11);

// the previous reading from the analog input
int previous = 0;
const int buttonPin = 2;     // the number of the pushbutton pin
// variables will change:
int buttonState = 0;         // variable for reading the pushbutton status

void setup()
{
  // set the speed of the motor to 30 RPMs
  stepper.setSpeed(30);
}

  void loop() {
    static unsigned long lastButtonTime = 0;
    static boolean lastButtonState = false;

    boolean newButtonState = digitaRead(buttonPin);
    unsigned long currentTime = millis();

    // Make sure it has been at least 100 milliseconds since the last button change to filter out bounces
    if (newButtonState != lastButtonState && currentTime-lastButtonTime > 100) [
        lastButtonTime = currentTime;
        lastButtonState = newButtonState;
        if (newButtonState) {  // Fresh button press
             stepper.step(XX);
             delay(X*1000); // Wait X seconds
             stepper.step(-XX);
        }
    }
}
}

[Reply #3 on:]

That's because I mis-spelled it as 'digitaRead'.

[Reply #4 on:]

Ha easily corrected, right its done compiling so im going to wire up this button.
Thanks for that John
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