This posting is rather short as it points to a longer one. I had the honor of being the Featured Engineer at the online Electrical Engineering Community magazine EE WEB. You can find the published article / interview HERE. EE WEB is an excellent source for electrical engineering related material. Professionals from all around the...
You have a stepper motor and you are wondering how to wire it to your driver board. If you have a four lead motor, then that is plenty easy. But what if the motor has five, six or even eight wires? What can you...
I have documented how to take your computer, stuff a five byte data packet and send it serially to your microcontroller through your serial port. Awesome! But wait! Computers just don’t have a serial port any more. How useless can this information then be?...
This posting may be semi wrongly titled. It refers to a Windows Application as that is what I will detail, but the truth is you can use any application...
Most of my firmware applications will have a very simple real time operating system running in the background and calling one out of eight tasks every 250 us. What...
I was recently asked to document the system that I use to control stepper motors (or any motor, for that matter) by sending serial commands with a computer. I...