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…
Month: December 2011
How to Wire Your Stepper
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…
Controlling a Motor With Your Computer Part IV: The Hardware Side
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…
Controlling a Motor With Your Computer Part III The Windows Application Side
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 on any OS. If you prefer Linux, I imagine there are…