Arduino-Based Stepper Motor Controller
September 24th, 2009
Decided to drop my PCB and use some prebuilt modules from pololu. Doing the math, this turned out to be the cheapest option (3x$13 vs. $50 for the PCB plus another $30-$50 to populate). The pololu modules use Allegro’s A4983 intgrated h-bridge drivers rated at up to 2A – which amazes me given the size of the ICs. I’m a bit worried but I suspect that they’ve already been tested. I’m going to power it with a +/- 15V 3A supply I have, and use the g-code parser from the reprap project.