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A project log for A4988 Stepper Driver Duplicator

Putting two steppers on a single driver is dumb. Four doubly so. Here's a stepper driver breakout.

benchoffBenchoff 05/26/2016 at 14:270 Comments

here are two parts to this project: a board that takes the step, direction, and enable pins from a socket meant for an A4988 stepper motor driver, and a second board that fans it out to four separate A4988 motor drivers.

Here's the cable adapter:

Simple enough, and uses very common 2x3 ribbon connectors.

The second board drives four A4988 motor controllers with all the requisite hardware. These boards are combined into a single PCB for ease of ordering.

It's designed to connect to stepper motors and a power supply through screw connectors.

And the relevant parts of the schematic:

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