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Wire a stepper motor

Wire a stepper motor - Raspberry Pi Tutorial

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Wire a stepper motor

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- [Instructor] Robotics projects often involve special motors called stepper motors. Instead of spinning at high speed, stepper motors can be precisely positioned at a specific rotation. This is possible because stepper motors have a collection of electromagnets surrounding the axle. Each electromagnet can be individually turned on and off stepping the motor from one position to the next. Hi, I'm Mark Niemann-Ross and welcome to this week's edition of Raspberry Pi Weekly. Every week, we explore the Raspberry Pi and share useful tips. In this week's project, I'll show you how to control a stepper motor with a Raspberry Pi. Besides the Raspberry Pi, we'll also need a battery, less than 36 volts, a two eight BYJ dash 48 stepper motor, and an L293D motor driver. So you might ask, why do we need the L293D motor driver? The answer is, we'll use it to control the stepper motor, but why not just connect the stepper motor directly to the Raspberry Pi? The answer is, the Raspberry Pi GPIO will…

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