Arduino stepper
arduino
Solution
As you suggest, the adafruit motor shield should fit the arduino stepper library, as it uses a L293D to drive the motor. It can drive 2 stepper with an current of 0.6A (good for most of little stepper you can find in printers, floppy/CD/DVD reader...).
Be careful, they seem to use their own library for this shield, you can find it here :
http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/download.html
And to know how to connect your stepper, look here :
http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/use.html
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Problem
I am building a system with the Arduino Uno, a power shield (REf to model) and a bipolar stepper motor. I cannot initiate the motor using the stepper library from Arduino. I instantiate my stepper with ``` Stepper myStepper(motorSteps, motorPin1,motorPin2m motorPin3,motorPin4); ``` And keep on with the example code provided with the Arduino. When I launch the code on the Arduino, the motor emits some sounds, but it does not turn. How can determine the right motor pins to use? On the power shield, which mode is to be used, PWM or PLL?