Jessica A. Artiles // PROJECT

Circuit Design and Programming - Stepper Motor Control

As part of my Media Lab class, How to Make (almost) Anything, I learned to play with input and output devices. This week, I designed and manufactured a board for a stepper motor to be contorlled through Arduino. For the many iterative processes it took to get there, visit my portfolio page.

How to Make (almost) Anything is the class that gave birth to Fab Labs, now an international movement for makers worldwide. The course is a bootcamp into fabrication technologies (digital and analog) through weekly projects to master a tool/skill/technology per week. I was one of the very few that bit the bullet and continued to work with Neil Gershenfeld, founder and instructor of the class, in the sequel of the class, How to Make Something that Makes (almost) Anything.

Skills

Eagle Software
Roland Modela
PCB milling
Soldering
Arduino Programming
Debugging
Motor Control

Select photos

Board Schematic from Eagle

Board View with traces

Post-manufacturing, laying down the solder

Wires make great band-aids

Arduino edited code working!

Green lights are a go! AVR Dude programming my stepper motor controller board.

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