Mike's Brain » stepper motors http://blog.witsmith.com Just ticking away... Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:17:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 GeckoDrive Servo/Stepper Motor FAQs http://blog.witsmith.com/2009/05/geckodrive-servostepper-motor-faqs/ http://blog.witsmith.com/2009/05/geckodrive-servostepper-motor-faqs/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 06:40:05 +0000 Mike http://blog.witsmith.com/?p=60 Lot’s of good general information about stepper and servro motors… What are the advantages/disadvantages between steppers and servos? Should I use servos or steppers in my machine? Torque & micro/full stepping?

geckodrive.com/faq.aspx?n=783775

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“This tutorial covers the basic principles of stepping motors and stepping motor control systems, including both the physics of steppers, the electronics of the basic control systems, and software architectures appropriate for motor control.”

www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/step/

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