T3rr0rByte13
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5 Servos and a Stepper Motor

Mon Dec 09, 2019 1:25 am

I'm looking for the best way to hook up 5 servos and a Stepper motor to a single Raspberry Pi. I can figure out the programming I just don't know the best way to physically connect all these. Can you please help? Thanks!

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Re: 5 Servos and a Stepper Motor

Mon Dec 09, 2019 11:43 am

From the little information supplied....

If they are just standard small servos you would connect them 5 gpio pins to provide the control signals , but you would need to power them from a separate power supply,

the stepper motor will require a drive board of some type dependant upon which stepper motor you intend to use, again using 3 or more gpio to provide the control and a separate power supply to power it.
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T3rr0rByte13
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Re: 5 Servos and a Stepper Motor

Sat Dec 14, 2019 5:04 am

Thanks pcmanbob, I have located a few driver boards from Adafruit that may suit me. I'll have to figure out how I am gonna power these. Thinking a barrel connector to Positive Negative output. Plugged into a wall... we will see.

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