No Arduino required. (In fact, it may ruin your Arduino) Thought this was pretty cool. Take any two wires from a stepper motor. Connect them thru an LED. Spin the stepper by hand. Watch the LED light up :smiley: Note: I've only tried with a 5-wire stepper. Doesn't matter which way the LED is turn…

Lighting LED with stepper motor

Osgeld February 9, 2010, 5:09am 6

actually that does, one with some bored spare time and a couple scrap floppy drives ...

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