Stepper Motor timer

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Hi everyone! I've been trying to make a stepper Motor rotate for a certain amount of time IF I press a button once. For the momen I managed to make this coding, the motor does start rotating after I press the button, but it doesn't stop now. How should I fix it?

#include <Stepper.h>
const int stepsPerRevolution = 512;
Stepper myStepper1(stepsPerRevolution, 10, 12, 11, 13);
int Switch = 2;

unsigned long minutes = 6000;
void setup() {
pinMode(Switch, INPUT_PULLUP);
myStepper1.setSpeed(60);

}

void turns(int numberOfRotations){
for(int i = 0; i< numberOfRotations; i++){
for(int steps = 0; i< 500; steps++) {
myStepper1.step(1);
}}}

void loop() {
if (millis() < minutes * 1) {
//do this for 15mins from start up
if(digitalRead(Switch) == LOW)
turns(10);
} else { }
}

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if (millis() < 6000).......
That will happend during the first 6 seconds after power up or reset....

3

This seems to be wrong. millis() are milliseconds, but you compare them to minutes. Maybe you should rename the variables to make it clearer....

unsigned long SixSecondsInMilliseconds = 6000 ;

for example.

4

Try this.

#include <Stepper.h>
const int stepsPerRevolution = 512;
Stepper myStepper1 ( stepsPerRevolution, 10, 12, 11, 13 );
int Switch = 2;
unsigned long minutes = 6000;

void setup ()
{
  pinMode ( Switch, INPUT_PULLUP );
  myStepper1.setSpeed ( 60 );
}

void loop ()
{
  if ( millis () < minutes )
  {
    if ( digitalRead ( Switch ) == LOW ) myStepper1.step ( 10 * stepsPerRevolution ); // 10 turns
  }
}

The stepper motor should stop after about 10 seconds.

5

You tell the Stepper library that the stepper is 512 steps per revolution but your code implies 500 steps per revolution:

6

How to write Timers and Delays in Arduino deals with writing timers, but you could also use AccelStepper library and run to a given position which is probably what you actually want. You can reset the current position as 0 so you can just repeat running the same amount.

Multi-tasking in Arduino which has a complete stepper example

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