Hi folks,
I'm fairly new to electronics and stepper motors and am looking to get started by experimenting with building my own control circuitry for a stepper motor ... (and eventually having a go at building my own CNC machine in the future).
I found some cheapish stepper motors on Ebay to experiment with. They are these: Sanyo Denki units. However, after doing a bit of googleing on how to control these stepper motors I found that some of the Sanyo Denki units only work with special controllers.
My question is: would I be able to control these from a simple home-made controller such as a PIC or an AVR microprocessor? I have a basic understanding of how stepper motors work and have used an 8-bit AVR microcontroller to drive a 4 wire stepper from an epson printer before. Would I be able to control this stepper in that way too?
I'm fairly new to electronics and stepper motors and am looking to get started by experimenting with building my own control circuitry for a stepper motor ... (and eventually having a go at building my own CNC machine in the future).
I found some cheapish stepper motors on Ebay to experiment with. They are these: Sanyo Denki units. However, after doing a bit of googleing on how to control these stepper motors I found that some of the Sanyo Denki units only work with special controllers.
My question is: would I be able to control these from a simple home-made controller such as a PIC or an AVR microprocessor? I have a basic understanding of how stepper motors work and have used an 8-bit AVR microcontroller to drive a 4 wire stepper from an epson printer before. Would I be able to control this stepper in that way too?