Arduino Uno + Addfruit Motor shield

Other Hardware Motors, Mechanics, Power and CNC
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Hi there, Im rather new to this and I need some help

I have an Arduino Uno + Protoboard an Addfruit Motor Shield http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/and I want to be able to controll a stepper motor in forward and reverse using momentary switches

I have an old keypad which has 4 switches, I would like to to the following

one switch to start the stepper motor,
one to increase speed (in increments ie: 1 press slow, 2 press medium 3 press fast)
one to decrease speed
and the final switch to stop the stepper motor

I know how to wire the stepper motor and run it using the basic code but thats about as far as my skill goes

If someone would like to help me with the connections and the beginings of the code that would be great.

Thanks
Jason

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Do you have the StepperTest example code running ?

Have you read this: www.ladyada.net/make/mshield
and check all items on the left.
The "Use It!" sections contains the most important section for steppermotors.
You will see there these functions to control the steppermotor: motor.setSpeed() and motor.run().