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Arduino with stepper motor

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Hello adafruit forum, I m a beginner, and i m working on a poject. I need help with the codes i found from this website using arduino Uno to control bipolar stepper motor with TB6612FNG driver. Basically what i wanted my program to do is to use Round Force-Sensitive Resistor to activate stepper motor. when Round Force-Sensitive Resistor is touch, it will activate the arduino to control stepper up and wait there until the sensor is release . Please ,can anyone point me to right directions...thanks.

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/*
  Stepper.cpp - - Stepper library for Wiring/Arduino - Version 0.4
  
  Original library     (0.1) by Tom Igoe.
  Two-wire modifications   (0.2) by Sebastian Gassner
  Combination version   (0.3) by Tom Igoe and David Mellis
  Bug fix for four-wire   (0.4) by Tom Igoe, bug fix from Noah Shibley  

  Drives a unipolar or bipolar stepper motor using  2 wires or 4 wires

  When wiring multiple stepper motors to a microcontroller,
  you quickly run out of output pins, with each motor requiring 4 connections. 

  By making use of the fact that at any time two of the four motor
  coils are the inverse  of the other two, the number of
  control connections can be reduced from 4 to 2. 

  A slightly modified circuit around a Darlington transistor array or an L293 H-bridge
  connects to only 2 microcontroler pins, inverts the signals received,
  and delivers the 4 (2 plus 2 inverted ones) output signals required
  for driving a stepper motor.

  The sequence of control signals for 4 control wires is as follows:

  Step C0 C1 C2 C3
     1  1  0  1  0
     2  0  1  1  0
     3  0  1  0  1
     4  1  0  0  1

  The sequence of controls signals for 2 control wires is as follows
  (columns C1 and C2 from above):

  Step C0 C1
     1  0  1
     2  1  1
     3  1  0
     4  0  0

  The circuits can be found at 
 
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Stepper
 
 
 */


#include "Arduino.h"
#include "Stepper.h"

/*
 * two-wire constructor.
 * Sets which wires should control the motor.
 */
Stepper::Stepper(int number_of_steps, int motor_pin_1, int motor_pin_2)
{
  this->step_number = 0;      // which step the motor is on
  this->speed = 0;        // the motor speed, in revolutions per minute
  this->direction = 0;      // motor direction
  this->last_step_time = 0;    // time stamp in ms of the last step taken
  this->number_of_steps = number_of_steps;    // total number of steps for this motor
  
  // Arduino pins for the motor control connection:
  this->motor_pin_1 = motor_pin_1;
  this->motor_pin_2 = motor_pin_2;

  // setup the pins on the microcontroller:
  pinMode(this->motor_pin_1, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(this->motor_pin_2, OUTPUT);
  
  // When there are only 2 pins, set the other two to 0:
  this->motor_pin_3 = 0;
  this->motor_pin_4 = 0;
  
  // pin_count is used by the stepMotor() method:
  this->pin_count = 2;
}


/*
 *   constructor for four-pin version
 *   Sets which wires should control the motor.
 */

Stepper::Stepper(int number_of_steps, int motor_pin_1, int motor_pin_2, int motor_pin_3, int motor_pin_4)
{
  this->step_number = 0;      // which step the motor is on
  this->speed = 0;        // the motor speed, in revolutions per minute
  this->direction = 0;      // motor direction
  this->last_step_time = 0;    // time stamp in ms of the last step taken
  this->number_of_steps = number_of_steps;    // total number of steps for this motor
  
  // Arduino pins for the motor control connection:
  this->motor_pin_1 = motor_pin_1;
  this->motor_pin_2 = motor_pin_2;
  this->motor_pin_3 = motor_pin_3;
  this->motor_pin_4 = motor_pin_4;

  // setup the pins on the microcontroller:
  pinMode(this->motor_pin_1, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(this->motor_pin_2, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(this->motor_pin_3, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(this->motor_pin_4, OUTPUT);

  // pin_count is used by the stepMotor() method:  
  this->pin_count = 4;  
}

/*
  Sets the speed in revs per minute

*/
void Stepper::setSpeed(long whatSpeed)
{
  this->step_delay = 60L * 1000L / this->number_of_steps / whatSpeed;
}

/*
  Moves the motor steps_to_move steps.  If the number is negative, 
   the motor moves in the reverse direction.
 */
void Stepper::step(int steps_to_move)
{  
  int steps_left = abs(steps_to_move);  // how many steps to take
  
  // determine direction based on whether steps_to_mode is + or -:
  if (steps_to_move > 0) {this->direction = 1;}
  if (steps_to_move < 0) {this->direction = 0;}
    
    
  // decrement the number of steps, moving one step each time:
  while(steps_left > 0) {
  // move only if the appropriate delay has passed:
  if (millis() - this->last_step_time >= this->step_delay) {
      // get the timeStamp of when you stepped:
      this->last_step_time = millis();
      // increment or decrement the step number,
      // depending on direction:
      if (this->direction == 1) {
        this->step_number++;
        if (this->step_number == this->number_of_steps) {
          this->step_number = 0;
        }
      } 
      else { 
        if (this->step_number == 0) {
          this->step_number = this->number_of_steps;
        }
        this->step_number--;
      }
      // decrement the steps left:
      steps_left--;
      // step the motor to step number 0, 1, 2, or 3:
      stepMotor(this->step_number % 4);
    }
  }
}

/*
 * Moves the motor forward or backwards.
 */
void Stepper::stepMotor(int thisStep)
{
  if (this->pin_count == 2) {
    switch (thisStep) {
      case 0: /* 01 */
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_1, LOW);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_2, HIGH);
      break;
      case 1: /* 11 */
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_1, HIGH);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_2, HIGH);
      break;
      case 2: /* 10 */
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_1, HIGH);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_2, LOW);
      break;
      case 3: /* 00 */
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_1, LOW);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_2, LOW);
      break;
    } 
  }
  if (this->pin_count == 4) {
    switch (thisStep) {
      case 0:    // 1010
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_1, HIGH);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_2, LOW);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_3, HIGH);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_4, LOW);
      break;
      case 1:    // 0110
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_1, LOW);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_2, HIGH);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_3, HIGH);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_4, LOW);
      break;
      case 2:    //0101
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_1, LOW);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_2, HIGH);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_3, LOW);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_4, HIGH);
      break;
      case 3:    //1001
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_1, HIGH);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_2, LOW);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_3, LOW);
      digitalWrite(motor_pin_4, HIGH);
      break;
    } 
  }
}

/*
  version() returns the version of the library:
*/
int Stepper::version(void)
{
  return 4;
}

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Re: Arduino with stepper motor

Post by adafruit_support_bill »

using arduino Uno to control bipolar stepper motor with TB6612FNG driver
Hi, I moved this topic from "Arduino Shields from Adafruit" to "Arduino" because this is not an Adafruit Motor Shield question.

The best place to start is with the examples in the Stepper library. The SpeedControl example shows how to read a sensor and use it to control the motor speed. Experiment with that a bit and if you have some more specific questions, post the code you are using. There is no need to post the whole stepper library. we all have a copy of that already.

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Re: Arduino with stepper motor

Post by zajebiscie »

hello everyone, it is a good idea to use H-bridge plus arduino or just use arduino only to control steper motor? I need help to make this dicision because i am having troube making my H-bridge work with my arduino with the below code.

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#include <Stepper.h>

#define motorSteps 200     // change this depending on the number of steps
                           // per revolution of your motor
#define motorPin1 8
#define motorPin2 9
#define motorPin3 11
#define motorPin4 12
#define ledPin 13

// initialize of the Stepper library:
//Stepper myStepper(motorSteps, motorPin1,motorPin2); 
Stepper myStepper(motorSteps, motorPin1,motorPin2,motorPin3,motorPin4);

void setup() {
  // set the motor speed at 60 RPMS:
  myStepper.setSpeed(60);

  // Initialize the Serial port:
  Serial.begin(9600);

  // set up the LED pin:
  pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);
  // blink the LED:
  blink(3);
}

void loop() {
  // Step forward 100 steps:
  Serial.println("Forward");
  myStepper.step(100);
  delay(500);

  // Step backward 100 steps:
  Serial.println("Backward");
  myStepper.step(-100);
  delay(500); 

}

// Blink the reset LED:
void blink(int howManyTimes) {
  int i;
  for (i=0; i< howManyTimes; i++) {
    digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH);
    delay(200);
    digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW);
    delay(200);
  }
}

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