kanta / STEP400_prototype

4 axis stepper motor driver with Ethernet interface

STEP400_prototype

This repository has been retained for data storage, but is no longer being updated.

Please visit https://github.com/ponoor/STEP400.

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STEP400 is a 4-axis stepper motor driver designed for art or design projects. STEP400 combines the following elements into one single board:

• Arduino Zero
• Ethernet shield
• Four stepper motor drivers
• Sensor inputs for homing and limiting

The current firmware is focused on working with Open Sound Control (OSC) via Ethernet, which is a common protocol for creative coding environments, like openFrameworks, Processing, Max, Unity, or Touch Designer.

Stepper driver chips are STMicroelectronics's powerSTEP01 which provide most of functionalities as a stepper driver.

Repository Contents

This repo is temporal place for working. All information will be moved to a new repo when the clean up is done.

Firmware

/rev4/STEP400_proto_r4_firmware/STEP400_proto_r4_firmware/

Source files for the firmware. Some Visual Studio files are included but you can open .ino file with Arduino IDE.

Hardware

/rev4/hardware/

PCB design files for Eagle.

Firmware dependency

• OSC Library from CNMAT
• Ponoor PowerSTEP01 Library
• ArduinoJSON Library
• Adafruit SleepyDog Arduino Library

Examples

Max

https://github.com/kanta/STEP400_prototype/blob/master/rev4/STEP400_proto_r4.maxpat

openFrameworks

https://github.com/ponoor/step-series-example-openFrameworks

Unity

https://github.com/ponoor/step-series-example-Unity

Touch Designer

https://github.com/ponoor/step-series-example-TouchDesigner

Documentation

Now working on Wiki.