motor shield and stepper motor set up.. HELP!!
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- bigwestwc
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motor shield and stepper motor set up.. HELP!!
HI, after playing with the arduino for about 3 months i decided to buy my self a motor shield.im trying to use a 6 wire stepper motor with the preloaded stepper sketch that comes loaded on the arduino platform. can anyone help me. by default the sketch uses pins (8,9,10,11) should i change those? or should the adafruit motor shield recognize them? when i hook it up straight to the arduino the stepper works. just cant seem to figure out how to connect it to the shield. im using 4 wires the other 2 seems to work with out just fine. thx
- adafruit_support_bill
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Re: motor shield and stepper motor set up.. HELP!!
You need to use the AFMotor library or the AFMotor compatible version of the AccelStepper library. Both are available here: http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/download.html
- bigwestwc
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Re: motor shield and stepper motor set up.. HELP!!
ok, I see now. I was wondering why the AFmotor library wasn't being recognized. one more question. do i need to download both libraries? i see they both say to rename to the same name (AFmotor). whitch one would be the best to download, i plan on building me a cnc router and will be working with stepper motors and probably some servos on other projects. thank you again.
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Re: motor shield and stepper motor set up.. HELP!!
For CNC work you will want the AccelStepper library. It has the capability to move multiple steppers simultaneously.
For servos, use the Servo library that comes with the IDE.
For servos, use the Servo library that comes with the IDE.
- bigwestwc
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Re: motor shield and stepper motor set up.. HELP!!
i figured it would be the AccelStepper library for a CNC project. Thank you for the fast replys
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