Stepper Motors and Arduino - The Ultimate Guide
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Parts list (check website article for full list, affiliate links):
Amazon.com:
NEMA 17 Stepper Motor: amzn.to/2M3aJK2
A4988 Stepper Driver: amzn.to/2GPLdrg
DRV8825 Stepper Driver: amzn.to/2OS8Dgs
TMC2208 Stepper Driver: amzn.to/3Pj2rvs
Arduino CNC Shield: amzn.to/2NZPFEc
AliExpress:
NEMA17 Stepper Motor: alii.pub/604klr
A4988 Stepper Driver: alli.pub/6c9gfd
DRV8825 Stepper Driver: ali.pub/5g0gbn
TMC2208 Stepper Driver: alli.pub/6c9fox
Arduino CNC Shield: ali.pub/5g0qsh
Banggood.com:
NEMA17 Stepper Motor: bit.ly/2YT8ZWu
A4988 Stepper Driver: bit.ly/30UuVmx
DRV8825 Stepper Driver: bit.ly/2Qw5Qcw
TMC2208 Stepper Driver: bit.ly/3sAusVD
Arduino CNC Shield: http: bit.ly/38AxwVc
In this tutorial we will learn everything we need to know about controlling stepper motors with Arduino. We will cover how to control a NEMA17 stepper motor in combination with a A4988, a DRV8825 and a TMC2208 stepper driver.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:16 How Stepper Motor Works?
5:32 A4988 Stepper Driver and Arduino
12:15 A4988 Current Limit Setting
14:19 Programming - Code examples
16:55 AccellStepper Library Examples
21:12 Multiple Steppers Control Example
22:57 CNC Shield and Arduino
23:43 DRV8825 Stepper Driver and Arduino
25:54 DRV8825 Current Limit Setting
26:33 TMC2208 Stepper Motor Driver and Arduino
27:51 Noise Levels - A4988 vs DRV8825 vs TMC2208
29:16 Conclusion
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can you pls make Arduino coding tutorials from basics to advance
Have you made a video regarding the bigger stepper motors and drivers?
Hi! Where's your dedicated tutorial for nema 23 and 34 drivers?
can we use stepper motors with rc controller?
Well Done. I feel many people would enjoy seeing your suggestion of a Video Tutorial for Larger Stepper motors like the NEMA 23 and NEMA 34 as you mentioned. Thank You for taking the time to make these videos.
Thank you for this video. I am also looking forward to the next video on the larger stepper motors. One thing I would like to praise the most is the fact that you have tried to explain controling of stepper without libraries. In my opinion it is very important to know how things works before inplementing them. Please keep up working, you are helping many curios minds to create new inventions a creations. Best regards one young Enginner
Glad to hear it, thank you!
Thank you so much! I'm brand new to all of this and trying to build a motorized/automated monitor stand for my sim rig. This video was super clear and easy to follow and I feel like I can go make it happen now, although I still have to figure out the WiFi connection piece. I'll be searching your channel for info on that.
I wish I watched this video for the first thing I started my robot arm project. This is so detailed and comprehensive...
Exactly what I was looking for! I’m working on a camera slider and was relying on some existing code that wasn’t really meeting my needs. This information gives me the foundational information to build a bit more from the ground up!
Glad to hear it! Have fun building that camera slider. Check my DIY camera slider video , it's a bit older project but still it could be helpful. Cheers!
Further feedback/comment. The 3 axis stepper Antenna Tuning Unit is now turning all 3 devices backwards and forwards using adaptations of your excellent sketches. Learning by doing (and correcting my mistakes whilst learning) and using your tutorials has worked for me. Still a long way to go. Again thank you. Cheers from OZ.
Do I take your comment to mean that you built a 3 axis antenna tracker, say, for satellite tracking? I would love to know how you did it. That is a dream project of mine.
Thank you so much for this video, and for your high precision while describing the video 😄 it helped me really a lot
Congratulations.This is an excellent presentation.Close to the best I have seen. Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Thank you so much for these videos. I‘m a mechatronics engineering student and while we mostly do theoretical electrical and mechanical engineering at university, your videos help me a lot for my personal projects! Currently working on a DIY tensile test using two stepper motors and a load cell.
So glad to hear it, thanks! I wish you good luck! 😀
Best video to understand about stepper motors, sir. I love your work 😘👌🫂🫂
Oh my God thank you very much. I've been wondering why my setup wasn't working with my TMC 2209 until I saw your wire from EN to ground. Thank you.😊
Thank you very much, i’m doing a project with 2 stepper motors and your video help alot. Looking for your new video 🎉
Best tutorial on stepper motor drivers ever! Very comprehensive.
Thank you!
Excellent video and very well explained/documented.
Many thanks!
Thanks for explaining everything carefully and saying every detail, great video, you really do the homework!!!
Of course I enjoyed the video very much! Thank you for this excellent class!
Where have you been my whole life!!! Man super sweet tutorial!!!
haha, thanks!
hats off to the efforts putted in video, explaining every detail while making it quite engaging.
Glad you liked it!
thanks for a comprehensive explanation.
Super detailed video, thanks a lot!
By the way, you are my yuotuber that I liked and appreciated the most.
Nice description & helpful too !
Very detailed video ! ^_^ also things make alot of sense the way you explain it , thanks
i didn't have a clue what to do! but now i do thank u so much, its a very clear what to do now u make it look easy. ur channel us well worth subscribing to👍
Glad I could help! Cheers 😀
Greatest video on Stepper Motor! Waited for this for so long.
Glad you liked it!
Much appreciated, thank you for the clear explanation
Love this video, did an amazing job explanin how to use it.
Very professional tutorial with narration correctly pitched to people learning at basic level. I learnt a lot. I am making a 3 stepper impedance matching unit for antennas. 3 x Nemer 23 TB6600 for current and Arduino Uno. Your advice on Arduino library is very useful. Cheers from OZ.
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Dean, does your motors run loud? I added a laser setup to my machine with the ardruino, cause my controller don't support a laser.
@@k33501 Happy 2023. Your steppers may make a noise during operation if the settings are not the optimal combination. So the current setting and the Pulse/rev settings can conflict with the sketch itself. I had to experiment a lot.
@@Yosemite_Sam Thank you Dean, I'll play around with the settings. All of the best for 2023 :)
Really well done video. Truly enjoyed every second of it... Thank you so much for this incredible video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very well explained. Nice Video
Awesome video, very clear, and well explained. Thank you for making it.
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers!
Thank you so much for sharing the code with the explanation. That's really helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent instruction. So much knowledge shared here. All my gratitude.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video, thank you very much.
Awesome video!,looking forward to the larger NEMA motors controlled by Arduino video
Thanks for your very informative video ❤
Once again a nicely explained video. Thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Brilliant video!
Nice video! Thank you!
Excellent video sir
soooo much better and useful.thankxsx
Exelent video! i feel unsure about the decoupeling capacitor tho, what voltage should i use?
Thanks, I wish you covered more about how to optimize the stepper motors for speed and not accuracy.
Outstanding video on this topic. Thank you. :-)
Thanks soooo much I really needed this video for my final year project
Glad I could help!
Great 🇧🇷😉👏👏👏👏 thank you bro !
The best channel in the world, please can you Explain how to make a Led Cube
Wow ! I never saw a video with nema motors like that
Instant like...👍 Great explanation...🙏
Glad you liked it!
Thank you SO much for this tutorial. It is absolutely just what I needed! Do you have a forum or community that I can ask questions in?
Dear Sir, Fantastic explaination in simpleasic electronic language.
Do you have any video for run stepper for one degree and stop. When next pulse given stepper shaft move to one degree in clock ir anticlockwise move.
Excellent tutorial and very well explained
Many thanks!
Excellent explanation... easy to understand..
Glad it was helpful!
Fantastic video!!!!
excellent explanation. wow
The best DAMN Stepper motor video I have ever seen.
Thanks!
Great job, as usual!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Excellent teaching. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
The best Channel of YT.
Thank you!
Good video!
Great Video ! What power supply should i use for the Motor?
Excellent video Thanks for sharing your knowledge. What is the maximum RPM nema 17 stepper motor. Thanks
Amazing video. Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Gold tutorial, Thanks for the information.
Glad it was helpful!
@@HowToMechatronicspls answer my question, I would like to know what driver is going to make my motor go faster???
Thanks for all the info provided in this video. When should we expect the tutorial for the NEMA23? Thanks.
what a nice video brother!!
Appreciate it!
outstanding efforts well prepared video as an opensource tutorial ,thank you so much.👍
Glad it was helpful!
@@HowToMechatronics It was ,keep the good work ,cheers.
Hey, I was wondering why you were not using a capacitor in the actual circuit but included it in the circuit diagram?
It was probably best practice
Amazing video !! Would it possible to ask you a question here please? What if I would like to connect a big NEMA 34 with its own large controller, to this CNC board? Is it feasible? Also, do these little red CNC boards allow the great motors to be used at their max speeds? And if not, which Arduino or GRBL system would be suitable for high performance driving of NEMA 34s?
Thanks!
Thank you for so excelent video, can I use Nema 34 12nm and keep the torque?
Thank you for a really great video. Unfortunately my motor is humming but not moving. Any idea where i have gone wrong? thanks
very detailed explanation... Super
Thanks!
Cool code!
Amazing Tutorial, just wondering if you're controlled more then 4 steppers at once? is it possible to control 8 or 12 etc and how would this be done?
Well done, thanks!
Thank you!
Thank you, hvala :)
What a great video, thanks for share.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks very much. Very helpful...
Glad it was helpful!
Great Video and informative too, Is there any tutorial for a mini project using 4 stepper motor control as a "Spidercam" (Football stadium cable camera) where you have wires spooled to 4 stepper motor and control with joystick
Great video. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
I kinda like the sound generated by a stepper driven by an A498. Sounds mechatronic.
Thank you Sir
what about controlling an stepper motor driver using SPI. Drivers such as TMC5160 usually can only be controlled by SPI and don't have a potentiometer. A video on that subject would be greatly appreciated!
great video, thank you so much
Glad you liked it!
Great 👍 thanks
the (unexplainably at-least-in-youtube-missing) stepper motor guide, ha ha: thanks a lot, master
Really nice video bro, if i try with the tb6600 driver, what will change?
Thank you!!!!
Very detailed explanation😊😊 thank you. But I have a question, If I want to run my rotary machine using stepper motor, where the stepper motor actions (on and off) are driven by photoelectric sensors just to make stop once the sensors are turned on, do I have to use driver? Or Can I just use transformer and capacitor only since it only run on single direction? Note: I only need the motor to stop exactly when the sensor are on Thank you
thats awesome, i wanna ask if i want to control two motors about 15m to 20m far from each other, will they still be synchronized and run at same time? wht is the maximum distance at which they will start to differ?
Great tutorial! I hope I found this earlier! Did you manage to make it work the first time? I already tried twice, and both attempts failed. The negative wire connecting 12V to GND on the A4988 melted right after I applied the voltage. Is there a reason for this? Thanks!
excellent
This video is an awesome recap on arduino stepper motor use! Theoretically, if you were to over drive a stepper motor with the driver, what would happen? Would you just burn out the stepper driver or would you also take out the arduino as well?
over drive?
My fav channel
Same here
Glad to hear it, thank you!
thank you for your informations :) can you maybe help me on how to control the stepper motor speed with a potentiometer knob? how would i implement that?
Thanks
Question: Once power is removed from the stepper motor, does the motor lock in place? In battery operated conditions, there is no extra power available to lock the motor. How do you suggest to lock the motor without consuming energy? And is there an easy way to add a gearbox or a worm drive to the popular stepper motor to increase the torque and provide a natural lock function? Thank you for your videos which are very informative and helpful. It is very important to describe how a device works before explaining how to use it. I am happy to see that you use this methodology, unlike most other KZhead instructors. I notice that in this lesson you also explain which library function block and which don't. I can't stress enough how important this is. If the function is non-blocking can you also explain if it is timer interrupt driven, feedback interrupt driven, or in the case of the .run() function, it just blocks for microseconds - i.e. a micro-block. A micro-block will cause the stepper motor to be influenced by the flow of control in the software. On the other hand, interrupt driven will allow the stepper motor to behave naturally no matter how the software behaves.
Answer to first question: No...
I know this was posted 5 months ago, but figured I’d give some extra help on your first question. If you need a way to self lock without power, do some research on the formulas for power screws. They can be self locking given a small enough lead (thread pitch) or a high enough friction coefficient. The calculations are relatively simple when given what each part of the formula represents. Good luck with your projects.
What power supply are you using? Would a 12V 2A wall outlet supply work well? I'm having trouble online finding resources for this. Intending to use 1-4 stepper motors (2.4ohm, 1.5A) for CNC related projects