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G. FlurryJava on the Raspberry Pihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7264-0_13

13. A Stepper Motor Driver

Greg Flurry1  
(1)
Austin, TX, USA
 

In this chapter, we’ll build a device library for a stepper motor driver. Stepper motors get used primarily in robotics projects, but it is not inconceivable they could be used in IOT projects.

There are many ways of driving a stepper motor, including simple drivers such as discrete transistors and H-bridges, which force you to do most of the work, and sophisticated drivers that do most of the work for you. In this book, we’ll look at the Watterott SilentStepStick (https://learn.watterott.com/silentstepstick/). It is a driver ...

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