The solution is named Ethersweep, and is a small PCB stack that sits on the rear of the common NEMA17-format stepper motor ... with Arduino covering the firmware and host control side in python.

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I ...

Stepper motors are a mainstay in precision control systems, valued for their simple open-loop operation and high torque at ...

They’ve taken the field-oriented control algorithm and encapsulated it into a compact Arduino ... measure both motor current (think: shunt resistor) and rotor position (think: encoder).

Now that your rotary encoder hardware is up and running it’s time to tell your Arduino what to do with the encoder signals. There are the two basic ways to read a microcontroller’s digital input. With ...

or else breaking down and wiring up a Schmidt trigger on each encoder output. A stepper motor and driver was wired up to the Arduino UNO (Figs. 5 and 6). Now, in addition to the serial monitor ...

Relative and Absolute are two primary types of rotary encoders. A quadrature encoder is in the relative encoder family and is most commonly used in high-speed motor control systems; it also ...

I have to thank one author of a rotary encoder decoder (Ben Buxton). While his code seemed overly complex to my untutored eye, for example creating a new data type, it did show Arduino-novice ...

A quadrature encoder is in the relative encoder family and is most commonly used in high-speed motor control systems; it also facilitates the ability to determine motor direction. The relative rotary ...