Motor Controls and Magazines
This week I have been looking at a stepper motor driver from Trinamic and revisited some magazines from my youth.
Posted in: Electronics
Tags: magazine, stepper motor
Drum and base
To do some testing on a Stepper Motor evaluation kit from Trinamic, I’ve been building a test rig. The idea is that the motor will drive a slider and I’ll check the position of that to determine the repeatability of
Posted in: Tools
Tags: stepper motor, test rig
Clock Electronics Current
The initial design for the Topsy Turvy Clock had all of the circuits being driven through the regulator on the microcontroller. This is a MIC5219 regulator and is rated at 500mA but also has a very low dropout voltage. The
Posted in: Topsy Turvy Clock
Tags: stepper motor
More small steppers
The output of my stepper motor feeds into a gearbox which I’ve been told has a ratio of approximatly 64:1. During the research of this project I came across a discussion about why the gear ratios were not exact nice
Posted in: Electronics, Topsy Turvy Clock
Tags: Arduino, stepper motor
Small stepper motors
For my clock project I needed to control the position of the hands. My options were continuously rotating servos or stepper motors. I found some small 28BYJ-48 stepper motors and gearbox with ULN2003 driver boards on the internet so I
Posted in: Topsy Turvy Clock
Tags: Arduino, stepper motor
X-Y Plotter revisited
Back in 1986 for my GCSE in “Craft Design and Technology” I had the idea of building an X-Y Plotter for my project. I recently found a couple of photos of the project so I though I’d revisit the project
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Tags: machining screw thread, stepper motor, x-y plotter
Stepperhead
The stepperhead is a sophisticated multi-mode machine made by Alan Jackson. In other words, it’s both a lathe and a milling machine but it can also perform some functions not available on either. The video below shows one of these
Posted in: Lathe, Machining, Milling
Tags: stepper motor
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
