dear arduinos,
i am planning to do a project with around 10 stepper motors which want to controll independently from each other
i am very new in this kind of technic and need your advice
which arduino product should i choose?... or at least is it possible with arduino?
have a nice weekend,
strudl
An easy way to control multiple steppers is to use driver boards such as stepper motor drivers. All you need then is a pin for direction and a pin to step for each motor. An Uno has twenty I/O pins, so you could just do ten motors if there were no other inputs and you were prepared to give up the use of the serial port for debugging.
Given that, I'd use a Mega, although I'd be tempted to start with a (less expensive) Uno while I was learning how to wire up, power and control multiple steppers.
The Thread stepper motor basics may be helpful.
It is one thing to drive the motors independently (easy) and another thing to drive two or more of them in a closely coordinated way so that, for example, motorA makes 237 steps in the same time that motorB makes 791 steps.
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Any particular kind of steppers? There are unipolar, bipolar, large, small, tiny, ...
Details are essential.