Hello everyone,
I'm also incredibly new to this and am looking for additional understanding.
I'm trying to control a simple 2 phase stepper motor using the Arduino Uno and R3 motor shield. Unfortunately for me due to the constraints of my project I need to control it through Labview (the Uno is supported by Labview but the R3 has not yet been tested because this is a fairly new feature in Labview). Anyway, I have been looking through some sample code and I'm getting confused about how to control this motor shield. It seems to me that the motor shield is controlled though the D(3, 8, 9, 11, 12, and 13) pins. Are these pins activated through the Uno and if that is the case how are the pins on the motor shield controlled, do these then turn into the pins that you would normally access on the Uno? Also, if these motor shield is activated by activating the pins on the Uno board, what is the purpose of the #include stepper line when coding in the Arduino platform? wouldn't the motor be able to be controlled without this line if that was the case?
Any understanding will be very helpful, and I'm sorry if my questions are sort of all over the place. Thank you
Joe