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how to make stepper motor and led run sententiously but independent of each other? [duplicate]

I came across a problem with my code, I want to be able to have a servo motor constantly spin while a few leds blink at random. I already have a code written down but the problem is is that it seems ...
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Arduino doesnt seem to be reading my pin states

I seem to have an unbelievable thing. My code was working perfectly on one arduino, when i upload the same sketch to another one, it is behaving strangely, it seems like it is not reading any of my ...
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Modbus programming

I have a Controllino Mega running a code that rotates a stepper one revolution CW, and one revoluction CCW. I need the program to run, just when a signal is received from an HMI that I have connected ...
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Stepper Motor is not working with A4988 board

So, I have been following this tutorial on how to run a stepper motor with Arduino using an A4988 Stepper Driver. This is the tutorial: How To Control a Stepper Motor with A4988 Driver and Arduino. I ...
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Arduino multitasking, millis [duplicate]

My project requires that a hinged box be opened approx 90 deg. with an servo controlled with an Arduino, staying open for approx. 90 seconds. When the lid is open, then a lift mechanism with a stepper ...
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Break a while loop with a push button (AccelStepper.h)

Disclaimer: This is my first Arduino project. Background: I am building a "rapunzel tower" lantern for my daughter: the witch pays a visit to Rapunzel meanwhile my daughter can read a book (or still ...
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Can I control a 28BYJ-48 5V stepper with a DVR8825 driver?

I have a stepper motor 28BYJ-48 rated 5 V and I want to use a DVR8825 driver so I can use the 1/32 micro-stepping feature. My problem is that DVR8825 has a minimum operating voltage of 8.2 V. Would ...
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FlexyStepper: set current position leads to reach the old target

I'm using the FlexyStepper library.Unfortunately there's no way to write an issue to the author so I'm going to ask my question here. The documentation says about the setCurrentPosition*() functions: ...
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Motor does not rotate smoothly ( Even in High speed )

I am bhanuka and i am new to Stepper motors and to this library. I am trying to control 4 NEMA 17 motors ( Different speeds in same time ) using 4 (four) DM320t stepper driver. Actually i want to ...
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Determine what size power supply I need to run stepper motors

I have recently purchased two 7.4V, 1A, Planetary Gear Unipolar Stepper Motors as well as two Cytron 3A 4-16V Dual Channel DC Motor Drivers. I was told that I would need these to run the motors off an ...
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Stepper motor only rotates once in a loop?

I am quite new to this , I am trying to program two motors , aStepper and bStepper. I want the program to rotate aStepper then rotate the bStepper and when that is done rotate aStepper again , and ...
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Position Feedback for Stepper Motor

I want to rotate a gearwheel with a stepper motor. While Arduino is on everything is well. My gearwheel transfer its power to a gear worm. The worm will go 10th cm and back repeatedly. When I cut the ...
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Any advice you can give me on my step motor code?

I'm very new to Arduino, currently undertaking a uni project in which my team wish to create a sort of slot machine-esque device that uses a step motor to rotate a drum (like one of the cylinders in a ...
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Could i use a stepper motor?

i want to make a 3-axis gimbal with arduino but brush-less motors seem incredibly hard so would stepper motors work for this purpose? if their is a way if not, is how can i connect 3 gimbal motors to ...
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Stepper Motor Direction via Flow Amps

I have a problem with stepper motor direction. I want to change the direction of the stepper motor rotation, when the stepper motor shaft is stuck. For example, when I hold the shaft of the ...
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How to control 30 stepper motors using Arduino?

To prototype my project, I'm going to use an Arduino. I need to control 30 step motors. 4 of these step motors should always be ready to work, no matter other motors are working or not. But the other ...
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A small problem that I cannot detect, My steppers are not moving for some reason …?

I'm working on a similar project that can be found in this link https://howtomechatronics.com/projects/arduino-mecanum-wheels-robot/ It's the same build. To control the 4 steppers (via the NRF24L01), ...
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Powering two stepper motors with A4988 drivers

New to this site and wanted advice and sanity checking on my project design. I know there are similar questions to this but I couldn’t find one that was closely similar to mine. I’m creating a device ...
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How can I pause a stepper motor with a ultrasonic sensor?

I'm trying to use a stepper motor to stay stationary and rotate about 90 degrees, when the ultrasonic sensor detects something in front of it, and stay at that position until the ultrasonic sensor ...
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Arduino Uno - Stepper motor not working with button

I am completely new to Arduino, and all sorts of hardware and software. I have a stepper motor, which I want to rotate by a number of rotations when I press a button, and then go backwards by a number ...
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Execute code only once

I am trying to create an if statement that only runs once, the very first time the void loop is started and switches to another code after that. But the following only executes stepper1a(). Any help ...
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Can you drive a stepper motor without the L293D

Can you drive a stepper motor without L293D. Don't awnser without giving explanations or saying it will be cheaper to buy the L293D. Thanks
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Accelstepper - how to switch from fullstep to halfstep in loop?

I am using Accelstepper library to control a unipolar stepper motor. In my project, I would like to run the stepper in full-step mode when I need speed and in half-step mode when I need precision. As ...
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Controlling a Stepper Motor - sending to specific positions on a 'buttonPushCounter ==' cue, forwards and backwards

I am working on a project using an Arduino control a Stepper Motor. The motor drives a lead screw which moves coloured filters to specific positions along a linear track - forwards and backwards. The ...
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Powering an Arduino directly from a motor driver (DRV8825) or external power source?

Hello people from StackExchange, I'm new to Arduino and driving stepper motors in general; please excuse me for my limited knowledge on the subject. I've been doing research for a few hours already, ...
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Code causing Servo motor not to work!

My sketch is compiling and loading, but when the program runs, the Servo motor does not work. The buttons work, the LED light works, Piezo buzzer plays the melody, the Stepper motor works but not ...
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Control Stepper via Serial Monitor

I would like to control my stepper via serial monitor and unfortunatley the code below did not work. Serial monitor works (Serial.println()), but it does not execute the stepperOne() part. Any ideas ...
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How do you make a stepper motor move at decimal (such as 0.5) steps?

if I were to use a code with the following format, //some loop digitalWrite(STEP_PIN,HIGH); digitalWrite(STEP_PIN,LOW); // each loop would make the motor move at one step. With this loop I can also ...
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How to Home a stepper and make it move 45 degree after that

I am trying to let a stepper find home (via microswitch) after power up. After that make it move 45 degrees (or the equivalent in steps) and wait for 3 seconds. Below is the code i found/adapted. ...
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Controlling 3 Steppers exactly

Update Here the update regarding the code I tried to program. I have a stepper with an attached disc with little holes every 45 degrees where a microswitch can rest into (hole is the exact size of ...
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map() function with stepper motor

I am controlling a stepper motor with a potentiometer and I am trying to map the potentiometer values (0-1023) to the stepper motor steps (200). I only want this stepper motor to turn 1 (one) rotation ...
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I need help makeing a light flash while a stepper is constantly moving

The starter code. #include <Stepper.h> const int stepsPerRevolution = 120; // change this to fit the number // for your motor of steps per revolution // initialize the stepper library on ...
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How to make a stepper motor move at sinusoidal acceleration?

I am new to arduino but I know basic concepts. How do I make the motor move at sinusoidal acceleration? I used the accelstepper library and it seems that at the end of each loop of distance with ...
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AccelStepper Library: How do I go to a position without decelerating?

When I make the motor move at a certain distance with setMaxSpeed(), setAcceleration(), and moveTo(), it always accelerates and decelerates. Is there a way to disable the deceleration?
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How do you make a stepper motor move in accordance to earthquake data using arduino?

I am new to arduino. I can import the acceleration data from a text file into arduino and I can also make the motor run at that acceleration with a distance calculated from an equation. I use the ...
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Controlling multiple stepper motors non-simultaneously

I want to control multiple stepper motors one after another and at different speeds/directions. I am using the ULN2003 driver and the stepper has 5 coils. My current code for controlling one motor is:...
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LB1847 stepper controller :how to connect to grbl atmega based board with step ,direction,enable , limit?

I like to use an LB1847 chip with stepper motor "both salvaged from old copier". I made a GRBL AtMega board, this board gives step, direction, enable and limit leads. So I tried to find the ...
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Using timer classes within classes

I am trying to develop a class for a pump that works on a stepper motor, it should be simple but its not working the way I thought it would. Once I move the timer object into the class the code wont ...
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Stepper Motor won't reverse/turn CCW

Before bothering anybody, I've been Googling this issue for the last three weeks and have not been able to solve the issue, so must reach out for help. My son has done multiple Arduino projects after ...
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Arduino NOOB - Stepper Motor + Rotary Encoder Control

I have a very basic Arduino setup : Arduino Uno Rotary encoder Nema 17 stepper motor + A4988 driver How can I control the rotation of the motor with the rotary encoder? How can I get it to make one ...
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How to connect a SilentStepStick TMC2130 stepper driver?

please excuse the noob question Am connecting a SilentStepStick to arduino with a stepper, for bench testing. It requires 5V power, plus I have a 24V power supply for the steppers. +5V connected to ...
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problem with reading PS3 controller buttons

I'm working on a camera slider mount with an X stepper (to move along slider), Y stepper (pan left right) and Z stepper (tilt up down). All of this is being controlled by a PS3 controller (PS3BT ...
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How to randomize the delay in Arduino Stepper code?

How does one add a random DELAY between 10 and 20 seconds? For example in the following stepper logic I have a delay of 11 seconds - expressed in milliseconds as: delay(11000). What would I need to ...
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Arduino Clock Speed effect on Stepper Speed

I am running a Pololu A4988 Stepper driver with two (soon to be three) steppers using the AccelStepper library. I have wired 1/8th microstepping on both as smooth running is important. The motors ...
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Stepper Motor - Limit Switch for Position

I'm following this guide https://howtomechatronics.com/tutorials/arduino/diy-motorized-camera-slider-pan-tilt-head-project/ My question is with the following piece of code used to calibrate the ...
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Passing a reference as a variable

I have a function for manually jogging a stepper motor using the AccelStepper library. At the beginning of the function I would like the motor in question to be selected until told to stop. Here is ...
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Nema 17, Arduino Uno and stepper motor drive ~2H42B

I tried running Nema 17 stepper motor using the drive in the pic below (not the basic L298N drive, which BTW I successfully used to rotate the motor) . Could any of you review my existing connections ...
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I want to make my stepper motor work for 1 hour [closed]

I already tried code that makes the stepper motor work for a few minutes only. I'm using a clock module, a DS1302 and the stepper library already present. Also the driver I'm using is an L298n. If ...
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Problem in reading data from encoder with arduino

Hello guys I am trying to count the number of the steps of a stepper motor with an encoder (Avago heds). I found an Arduino sketch to count that steps and display them on the console and I found ...
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DC motor with L289N driver cannot set RPM lower than 130

My setup is using an Uno r3, and the motor driver is an L289N. I am going to set it to run at a lower RPM, but when adjusting enA or enB to set to below 130, it won't spin. // connect motor ...

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