Help controlling multiple stepper motors with one button.

[tony_worby]

I'm trying to get my button to turn my stepper motor with 10 presses of the button before switching to the next stepper motor. I have my code sorted to turn a single stepper motor to the correct degrees but unsure on how I get the button to switch to the next stepper motor can complete the same task as stepper one.

Any help much appreciated.

Code for single stepper motor below.

#include <Stepper.h>

const int buttonPin = 2;
const int stepsPerRevolution = 208;

Stepper myStepper = Stepper(stepsPerRevolution, 8, 10, 9, 11);

int buttonState;
int lastButtonState = LOW;

unsigned long lastDebounceTime = 0;
unsigned long debounceDelay = 100;

void setup() {
pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT);

myStepper.setSpeed(50);

digitalWrite; Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop() {
int reading = digitalRead(buttonPin);

if (reading != lastButtonState) {

lastDebounceTime = millis();
}

if ((millis() - lastDebounceTime) > debounceDelay) {

if (reading != buttonState) {
buttonState = reading;

if (buttonState == HIGH) {
Serial.println("clockwise");
myStepper.step(stepsPerRevolution);
}
}
}

lastButtonState = reading;
}

[Robin2]

tony_worby:
I'm trying to get my button to turn my stepper motor with 10 presses of the button before switching

IMHO that is a recipe for user frustration. Most of the time the user will get the number of presses wrong.

Use more buttons.

...R

[MarkT]

Learn about state-machines and how to draw state transition diagrams - this is the basis for a lot
of UI input gesture parsing. For instance double-click detection, long press v. short press, etc.