How can I swap a servo with a stepper motor?

Question

I'm looking for a way to swap servo 1 with a stepper motor to achieve a single direction circular motion with stops and delay. Instead, now I have the servo going back and forth to repeat the action.

This is the code I'm currently using to drive the servo:

void loop() {
  topServo.write(115);
  delay(500);

  for(int i = 115; i > 65; i--) {
    topServo.write(i);
    delay(2);
}

This is a schematic of my project:

^{simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab}

Can anyone help me to configure this? or point me into the right direction.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Firstly, I'm going to assume that you got a ULN2003 Motor driver board something like this along with your 28-BYJ48 stepper motor.

Secondly, I would always recommend using a separate power supply for your stepper motors. Even a small stepper motor like the 28-BYJ48 can draw up to 320mA, (160mA per winding).

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I've used the following code to test a setup using a 28-BYJ48 stepper motor and an Arduino. The connections to the driver board (IN1 - IN4) are mapped to pins 8-11 on the Arduino in this case. The code will cause the stepper to rotate 1 full revolution in one direction, pause for 1 second and then rotate one full revolution in the other direction.

(I've often found this simple piece of code really handy for troubleshooting!)

#include <Stepper.h>

const int stepsPerRev = 2048

// initialise the stepper library on pins 8, 9, 10 & 11
Stepper myStepper(stepsPerRev, 8,10,9,11);        

void setup() {
  // set the speed
  myStepper.setSpeed(4);

}

void loop() {
  // step one revolution in one direction:
  myStepper.step(stepsPerRev);
  delay(1000);

  // step one revolution in the other direction:
  myStepper.step(-stepsPerRev);
  delay(1000); 

}