Stepper Motors with Arduino - Controlling Bipolar & Unipolar stepper motors
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- Learn how to use stepper motors with the Arduino.
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Today we will be working with stepper motors, a versatile yet often misunderstood electromechanical component used in a variety of devices.
After examining how stepper motors work and what the difference is between a “Bipolar” and “Unipolar” stepper is I will show you how three methods of controlling a stepper motor with an Arduino:
1 - A common 28YBJ-48 Unipolar Stepper with a ULN2003 driver board. These inexpensive stepper and driver combinations are very common and are available on eBay, Amazon, and probably in your local electronics store. I’ll show you two different ways to use these with two different Arduino libraries.
2 - A NEMA 17 Bipolar stepper motor with an L298N dual H-Bridge driver board. We’ve used the L298N driver board in another video to control a pair of brushed DC motors but it also makes a good driver for a bipolar stepper motor.
3 - The same NEMA 17 Bipolar stepper motor controlled by an A4988 stepper driver. This common driver board is used in many 3D printers and CNC machines and simplifies the control of one or several stepper motors with an Arduino.
I’ll also discuss concepts like microstepping and I will show you how to understand some of the many parameters that are included on stepper motor specification sheets.
If you’d like to jump ahead to a particular section in the video here is the table of contents:
00:00 - Introduction
01:34 - Stepper Motor Theory
04:21 - Bipolar vs Unipolar Steppers
08:18 - Common Stepper Specifications
11:32 - NEMA motor sizes
13:41 - 28YBJ-48 Unipolar Stepper with ULN2003
28:16 - NEMA 17 Bipolar with L298N
36:41 - NEMA 17 Bipolar with A4988
As always you can get all of the code I use in this video by visiting the DroneBot Workshop website and looking at the article at dbot.ws/stepper. You’ll find code listings and hookup diagrams and well as a convenient ZIP file containing all of the Arduino sketches.
Hopefully, this video will inspire you to start using stepper motors in your own designs.
Now let's get stepping! - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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You're not that old Charley. 60 is just a whisker past middle age, so still a puppy in your prime. Congrats for keeping the grey cells firing! You might want to look into 3d Printing. Its all circuit boards and stepper motors and really gets the creative juices flowing. Its led me down the path of learning CAD software and its really cool once you get over the initial learning curve. Good luck buddy!
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@@jackdeniston9326 Hey Charley. I'm about the same here. 61, disabled, and enjoy filling my time working on various DIY projects. I did have three years of electronics in high school, but didn't pursue a technical school degree, or try to work in the field. I went straight to work doing construction until my body finally gave up. I had forgotten how fascinating I found electronics to be. I am just so thankful for all the people who are willing to get on the web and share their knowledge, it makes it much easier to learn all over again.
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4:40 stepper motor operation
5:50 coil winding (pos, neg, center tap)
8:19 stepper motor specs
15:00 first experiment (unipolar stepper motor)
16:30 first experiment arduino code
28:18 2nd exp (bipolar stepper motor)
Stepper operation
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Merci
7:59 stomache wants something to digest (headphones required)
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Thank you for the comment and I'm glad that you are finding the website useful. Eventually I would love to translate the website and the video transcripts into other languages to make it more useful to my non-English speaking friends.
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Excellent work, this will be my first Arduino project driving a stepper motor, you have made it very understandable, thank you for your time and effort.
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Thanks for your very detailed explanations and demos. I got my unipolar to move exactly the way I wanted by applying your info to my kit! I'm a total newb, but achieved my goal of looping to rotate 2x CW and 1x CCW; there are a lot of videos out there that say they are "tutorial" but what you end up seeing is a demo set to annoying dance music and no explanation of what is going on. I sure appreciate your in depth approach and demos. I just subscribed!
Many thanks for your tutorials. I've have used Arduino, ESP8266, and ESP-32, ESP-32 Cam and Raspberry Pi modules for several years now, but I find your turorials to be excellent: detailed enough for the beginner, but sufficiently paced so that an expereinced viewer like me does not get bored. One minor point in this one: the units of torque are force-length, ie ounce-inches, not ounces per inch.
One small point. At 46:40 you should tell folks to turn the A4988 pot fully ANTICLOCKWISE to set the current to zero BEFORE connecting power, then wind it clockwise to increase. If by chance the pot was fully clockwise then there is a risk of magic smoke from the coils. Suggest you just overlay a comment onto the video. Apart from that, I followed your instructions and all works well, thanks.
That's an excellent point, no one wants to see "magic smoke". Thanks for bringing it up, much appreciated.
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Great stuff, I'm literally two weeks old into learning about the Arduino and electronics in general and this was so helpful. Thank you! What I'm trying to do is to use a NEMA 17 Bipolar stepper with A4988 and a rotary potentiometer to control speed and a button to be able and reverse direction. If you have any advice on how I can go from what you describe here: ( NEMA 17 Bipolar with A4988 - 36:41 ), to what I need i would greatly appreciate that. I'd like to compare the sketch and wiring from what I need to what you show here to get a better understanding of how I go from one to the other.
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All Best,
Tom
please do video on open loop and closed loop motors. for ex. servo and steppers
steppers very are good but they are not good for high speed applications with high accuracy and torque.
for high speed, you use a brushless motor
16:30 I'm not sure why you used floats for these constants, especially when the stepper motor library calls for ints.
with me it sais that stepper does not have a name type
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Great video! easy to understand. My first project was a stepper motor with the L298n. went smooth thanks to your video.
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Me : 50 min, its too long,
20 min later : already 20min left, i'll see it entirely
Me:50 min,its too long,
50 min later,prepared cup of coffe and looking through the channel for more.
with other arduino tutorials,5 mins in the video and i am already lost.
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A great natural teacher. I am an intermediate Arduino user but I wish I had seen this earlier in my endeavors.l IMO this is THEm BEST Stepper Video and I have suffered through 30+?. WELL DONE. Tank You.
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and you can tell what question a learner can ask.
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and an still amazed by how you did all that
Thank you for this great tutorial Sir!
Thanks to you, I can finally use my stepper motor because the pin connection was explained incorrectly in the manual. Now I finally understand how to controll a stepper motor with an Arduino. You are a great teacher Mr.!
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Thank you so much for this video. I was struggling and looking round for instructions for driving stepper motors with Arduino. And here it all is, easy to follow, easy to understand and with code available. Brilliant. I am so grateful.
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Thanks for adding the chapter time-breaks!
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Seriously, thanks for clarifying a lot of stuff, I'm currently just anxiously trying to get into the whole stepper motor part of electronics, I did some some years ago, but I've forgotten a lot of it. Having some prior knowledge, I (at first) found the tempo of your video a little slow, but it started making sense and all of a sudden I'm informed of what kind of motor and which driver I need for my project.
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This was a great insight into stepper motors. Ideally I would like to learn enough to build an antenna rotator. Thanks for your time and effort.
Thank you for giving me an idea how to use stepper motor.I may need to watch this video over and over again and watch other videos regarding arduino and stepper motor. This is a big help for me as a beginner.
absolutely great work! I got my steppers up and running for a camera slide project using the 298!
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Excellent instruction Sir. Anything I didn't understand is purely on me!! As others have said better than me, your audio, your pace, your visual presentation, detailed yet crisp explanation of the scripts, and your tidy demonstrations are superb. I am building a Flight Simulator and need to understand the use of steppers and their drivers to enable data from the flight sim software to drive steppers for instruments such as Altimeter, Rate of Climb, Air Speed and a number of other dial type gauges. I have lots to learn!! Thankyou for making it easier than I expected.
So, I was initially just checking out this video to see quickly how to hook up the 28YBJ-48 unipolar motor to the Arduino but now 50 minutes later I'm still here... Thank you for the great walkthrough, this really gave me a better understanding of stepper motors! You're presenting it all very well and it's a joy to watch! You've earned a new subscriber!
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This many years later, Thank-You.
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Fantastic job on the video! Very informative and put together very well. There are so many junkie videos out there that are painful to watch, but yours are very good. I have access to hundreds of used stepper motors on their way to the trash and have always wanted to do projects with them. Now I can.
life saver......was watching other videos.....all showed us to get some 3 pin transistor and diode to run the motor....stumbled upon this later on...and here i am running my motor....god bless you mate !
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Having worked in this industry for more than 2 decades, I have to say that this video is the first AND most accurate I've seen to date.
Some improvements I would suggest is to delineate the Static/Holding Torque a bit better. Static Torque is an indication, but the Motion Torque is the key.
Detent torque is typically on the orders of 1/10 or less of the Static Torque.
Would you consider making a video for closed loop operation?
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