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I'm testing a stepper motor using the Allegro A4979 stepper motor controller

alan-kilianAlan Kilian 05/20/2014 at 19:040 Comments

Unboxing shows a PCB and a CDROM.

Plug in the CDROM and I get a "READMEFIRST.TXT" file that says:

1) Click on Setup...

2) Then plug in the USB cable.

USB CABLE???? For a stepper motor driver?

Well, they have some really poor GUI for click-n-test that has NO documentation, will connect to ANY attached FTDI USB interface (Such as the FTDI cable I have running my arduino) and makes a general mess on things.

After a half-day, I got the darn thing stepping from the Arduino, but I'll have to figure out how to get it running without starting up the GUI and clicking boxes pretty soon.

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