So what’s the trick to running a whopping seventeen individual stepper motors directly from the digital pins of an Arduino Mega?

It handles three stepper motors, limiting switches, e-stop, and spindle control. The sketch he’s using allows him to stream g-code to the popular prototyping platform, freeing him from needing a ...

Step Two: Copy, Paste, and Run the Code in Arduino Open the Arduino software and paste the Arduino code (the text in the box near the bottom of the post) into a new sketch.

Makers, developers and Arduino enthusiasts searching for silent stepper drivers with high resolution encoders which are also Arduino compatible.

Arduino is the ultimate DIY electronics platform and can be tons of fun for the aspiring engineer. If you want to learn the ins-and-outs of Arduino programming, check out this complete starter kit ...