stepper motor arduino

[ziedhosni]

Hello everyone,

I would like to use an Arduino card to control a stepper motor with labvie

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/5483/setupga.jpg

Can anyone tell me the name and the model I have to buy for the red card and which electric plug I have to use?

Sorry to ask these idiot questions here. I am just a chemist.

Best,

[BFeigum]

What are you specificaly asking for? What red card? Are you talking about the two EasyDriver cards? Or the 12V power supply board?

As far as LabVIEW is concerned, you don't need to buy any additional hardware. You just need to download the Arduino Toolkit for LabVIEW from VIPM or the website.

[ziedhosni]

Hi,

Until now, I have just the Arduino card, I need to buy all the other things. Can you give me the names of all the cards I need to buy to make my motor rotate. I have no background in electronics. Controling wiyh labview is quite simple.

[Ranjeet_Singh]

@BFeigum wrote:

What are you specificaly asking for? What red card? Are you talking about the two EasyDriver cards? Or the 12V power supply board?

As far as LabVIEW is concerned, you don't need to buy any additional hardware. You just need to download the Arduino Toolkit for LabVIEW from VIPM or the website.

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Can you send me link of Arduino Toolkit for LabVIEW from VIPM.

Thanks

[ziedhosni]

Hi, this is the link

vipm://national_instruments_lib_labview_interface_for_arduino?repo_url=http://ftp.ni.com/evaluation/labview/lvtn/vipm

[Ranjeet_Singh]

Unfortunately your link is not working.Please add again.What is the advantage of having this? A simple C code in arduino and simple serial comm in LV can do lots of things.. What difference it makes 

[ziedhosni]

Hi,

I think you need to register to open the link.

Try this link.

http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/209835 

After download, I chose the VI for stepper motor example.

here is the snippet picture.

I want to use labview with it because it is a part of a bigger project.

Thanks,

[BFeigum]

A quick google search confirms that SparkFun sells the EasyDriver Stepper motor driver. They also provide sample code, tutorials, quick start guides, and schematics. I do not want to link it as it is not related to NI.

The red 12V board is simply a breakout board for the 12V power supply. You can use any 12V supply from anywhere. You can use a wall wart (like you find with printers) or you can buy a more robust and professional 12V power supply.

[BFeigum]

Ranjeet,

The advantage to using the toolkit is that, like LabVIEW, you can get things working quickly even if you do not understand all of the underlying processes. I think that the poster wants to just start getting the motor moving. He might not be experienced with C code or the arduino platform. We will also be able to easily integrate the code into labview instead of setting up a serial communication on the LabVIEW side and the arduino side.

[ziedhosni]

Thanks Ranjeet, this is what I was looking for. Abvious things for electronics expert like you seem very complex to me. 🙂