Control of Step motor

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Dear Arduino family,

I hope that this post will find you all well.

I am trying to start my path learning and using Arduino taking the opportunity that I am working on a project that includes the use of stepper motor (bipolar) which I would like to do it via Arduino.

I am using Arduino Uno R4 wifi, and from this forum and YouTube I found the example (I think it is from 101) of using the L293D motor driver module which was a bit old - I like the idea of the module being fixed on the Arduino card- but I did not notice that it is no longer supported.

I had the following error (C:\Users\mekhal\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Adafruit-Motor-Shield-library-master/AFMotor.h:156:47: error: 'DC_MOTOR_PWM_RATE' was not declared in this scope
AF_DCMotor(uint8_t motornum, uint8_t freq = DC_MOTOR_PWM_RATE)) and I found that is is not anymore supported this way.

I would like to purchase a new module to use ...the simplest possible and less wire using but I do not have the necessary experience to decide:

H-bridge L298N, two-motor module

DRV8825 driver for stepper motors

A4988 driver for stepper motors

Keyes 2-channel motor driver shield L298P.

Which one should I purchase and can you recommend any tutorial to follow as I would highly appreciate that since most of the topics are old, I really afraid that I will fall for the same issue.

Thanks in advance for you all and for your kind comments.
UNO R4 WiFi Motors, Mechanics, Power and CNC

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One can find grbl or "CNC shield V3" kits with drivers. This would get you a stack-on-top Arduino shield with minimal extra connections.

The original shield was made by Protoneer before everybody cloned it:

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To be sure, please post a link to the datasheet for the stepper.
L293 and the other drivers are not compatible.

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@DaveX Thanks for the feedback well below a link for the blow pdf :
I am using [Stepper motor NEMA 17 17HS3401 0.28Nm]
17HS4401-MotionKing.pdf (94.9 KB)

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Which Serie Model? (Left column in the table)

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@Railroader 3401 it is the one in the second line

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Great! That stepper needs a current limiting driver like the ones used on the CNC shield. An L293D would have prodiced bad things....

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The DRV8825 current limiting stepper driver will handle that motor. Be sure to set the current limit to 1.3A or less.

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Do you have a soldering iron and are you good at soldering?

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Thanks a lot for the recommendations, and I am so sorry for taking time to reply as I was sick and incapable of checking feedbacks. well I can not solder for some reasons but I used the channel motor driver shield and I tried to program according to my hardware and the code is running and the motor is working fortunately.

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