How does a stepper motor turn into an encoder? Well, that’s the MacGyver ... but the final was on a prototyping board. Of course, an Arduino reads the pulses. We love using things for unintended ...

Stepper motors are a mainstay in precision control systems, valued for their simple open-loop operation and high torque at ...

Hooked to an Arduino, the motor made a workable encoder, later improved by sending each phase through a comparator and using digital inputs rather than using the Nano’s ADCs. It looks like ...

After construction and pre-flight test, the module was connected to an Arduino board and measured the rotation per minute (rpm) rate of a geared robo motor (150rpm@5V) with the help of a home-made ...

Now that your rotary encoder hardware is up and running it’s time to tell your Arduino what to do with the encoder signals. There are the two basic ways to read a microcontroller’s digital input. With ...

To answer those questions, engineers at Heidenhain set up a torque motor commanded by a CNC controller hooked up to four different angle encoders to see how they differ. The four absolute angle ...

The new SilverPak 23DE, an integrated Nema 23, high torque, 1.8 degree bipolar step motor, microstepping driver and encoder is designed to reduce overall design time and system cost for a wide array ...

CUI Inc has announced an addition to its next-generation modular encoder series that generates standard U/V/W commutation signals for vectoring current to brushless motors. CUI Inc. has ...