Beginner's Guide to Controlling Stepper Motors with Arduino

[@lucaslra]

How is this channel not bigger? Excellent content!

[@RachelDeBarrosLive]

Glad you enjoyed it! 🥳

[@lohikarhu734]

You really do a "fine-grained" presentation! Nothing left out...

[@ewasteredux]

Very cool! Could you do a tutorial on interfacing a NEMA 17 stepper? These are the same type used by most 3D printers.

[@damianbutterworth2434]

They are quite easy. You can just use a simple blink program to step them.

[@RachelDeBarrosLive]

I'm getting a few new stepper motors to upgrade from these starter kit ones so I'll explore controlling more than one!

[@Thaedeim]

Just getting into Arduino and back into some programming. I bought a Keyestudio Mini tank robot and thought you might like to know it came with a L298P shield with power switch that stacks right on top of your UNO board so no extra wiring needed. Wanted to share if you haven't seen them yet. Keep making the awesome content it helps so much, I will for sure be joining the community of artistic builders!! love it

[@emmamarx9284]

Idk if you've addressed this but would you ever think about making a video using the Pi Pico? It's a lot cheaper and much more powerful than an arduino so its kinda made the arduino obsolete in many ways. You can run C/C++ on it and even use the arduino IDE to program it. Just curious :) Anywhoodles, love the video! you are soo cool! Thank you for all the tutorials

[@danielquinana1489]

Nice! I’ll be trying it out this weekend!

[@lohikarhu734]

I'll subscribe, happy to encourage good content!

[@DBB-KE5DUO]

step right on up to this! 🎼🎵🎤🎶 🎉 The live chats with you are always a blast 💥 The steps was not clear to me before your tutorial! Since you added the math, my engineer brain instantly latched on! 😊 🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@RachelDeBarrosLive]

👍 Always good to have an engineer brain in the mix 🥳

[@jackrichards1863]

My word, I think I'm besotted Rachel! You are such an exciting woman. Love the T shirt. AND the content , thank you kindly! This instruction is fantastic. It may appear obvious to many but it's not. I really am investing my focus in this series. Looking forward to my engineering project taking on a new persona! 😘

[@airhammer6203]

Always full of useful information, good stuff, beautiful.

[@RachelDeBarrosLive]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@airhammer6203]

@@RachelDeBarrosLive ok, knowing some of your work, reading the your reply and reading the comments again, I can see a sequenced animatronics layout in the works...

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[@Nick-xe2hu]

Great video.

[@RachelDeBarrosLive]

Thanks! 🥳

[@aaabbb-gu5pz]

Super! Thanks! 👍

[@RachelDeBarrosLive]

Thank you too!

[@lohikarhu734]

That ULN2003 is almost as old as I am! It dates from the 1970's, I think, still getting design-ins...

[@donm1547]

Thanks Rachel, you're so freaking cute and smart at the same time, I love it, thank you for all the info on these systems!

[@vernonleeper]

Cool vid, thanks, can and encoder be hooked to the output shaft to mimic a servo?

[@markhodgson2348]

Could you contact 10 amp solid state relays to each of leds on the stepper board ,lots of room for exploration

[@RachelDeBarrosLive]

Definitely! 👍

[@aeronca1946]

how can i get your news letter?

[@gerardzi7930]

Super

[@RachelDeBarrosLive]

🥳

[@Ducerobot]

Cool ❤

[@RachelDeBarrosLive]

Hope you get some time to work on your project this weekend!

[@Ducerobot]

@@RachelDeBarrosLive if the weather holds❤

[@_RsX_]

I like this new channel. Maybe it needs just a little nail polish 🙂

[@rudyvlog2897]

Hi ma'am may i request for arduino uno with tft project 🙂, thanks 🙂

[@RachelDeBarrosLive]

That's a great idea!

[@agahgokdag1845]

Sir,we are waiting NRF24L01's videos...

[@airhammer6203]

Sir???😂😅

[@MrAndBog247]

i am interested in steering 2 different stepper motors with different speeds on one arduino

[@RachelDeBarrosLive]

Definitely do-able! I'm getting a few new stepper motors and I'll do a video demonstrating how to d it 👍

[@MrAndBog247]

@@RachelDeBarrosLive would be very nice, i am going to build a rc car with stepper motors and the steering left and right should be done with different rpm of the steppers left and right ...

[@SylvesterOziomek]

Sadly there's not much (serious) you can do with that motor and it's difficult to apply that knowledge to normal stepper motor because of different wiring, ask me how I know.

[@emmamarx9284]

idk, i've made fun lil projects with them. I designed and built my own cnc pen plotter with them for fun and it worked well. Also fun for miniature robotics projects. also great for prototyping large projects in miniature on the benchtop just to see if they'll work :) I personally love them. If i ever need anything heavy duty I switch to nemas though.

[@SylvesterOziomek]

@@emmamarx9284 I'd agree with all of that if they would be wired the same way, but they are not so I disagree.

[@emmamarx9284]

You can convert them from 5 wire unipolar to 4 wire bipolar. It gives them a lot more torque, albeit you have to run them at a higher voltage (a little over double if I remember correctly? idk I worked on that project about 5 years ago lol) Also I think it’s good to learn to use unipolar and bipolar steppers so you have more options under your belt when working on designing your projects. Not everything needs a nema17, sometimes projects require steppers with a smaller form factor and the 28BYJ-48 is a cheap and effective solution.

[@SylvesterOziomek]

@@emmamarx9284 I'll look into that conversion if I get chance. If you me you only learn essentials needed to get the job done, otherwise you have no time to do other tasks. Sadly not much time to play. And I am more into nema 23 or 34.

[@naeemhaq3504]

please don't use libraries. real programming is hidden in such case. anyway good methodology

[@lohikarhu734]

What is a mill a amp? I always thought they were "Milli" amps... Just being ⛏️ picky, like how I hate people talking about "JiggaHerz" 👹