Beginning Arduino Programming

Stepper Library

The servo motor is an easy motor to hook up and does what it does with ease, but what if we want that same kind of positional accuracy in a motor that can spin the full 360? For that, we need to use a stepper motor, which is a type of motor that rather than spinning continuously, rotates in a specific number of degrees or steps. The amount of rotation per step is dependent on the individual stepper; ours has a rotation of 1.8° per step while others can range from as little as 0.9° per step to as much as 30° per step or more.

To control a stepper motor, the internal coils of the motor need to be individually energized in a particular sequence, dependent on the type of stepper motor, either unipolar or bipolar. Unipolar steppers ...