If you're looking for clever ways to repurpose any of the old CD or DVD players that might be scattered around your house, we ...

It is small, at 1.6 inches (40 mm) square, and provides up to 2 amps drive current for one axis and up to 1 amp for the second, with an optional second stepper or bi-directional dc driver daughtercard ...

Then select a stepper with at least twice as much torque as required at the target operating speed, and use a motor rated at about ¼ supply voltage. Next, look at the driver current required to ...

Mikroe has added a smart 85V 10A stepper motor driver to its range of interchangeable ‘Click’ boards. Called Power Step 2 Click, the board “is based on the powerSTEP01, a 1/128 microstepping ...

Multifunction printers, for example, often use a three-phase BLDC-motor driver or a stepper-motor driver (either one channel or two channel) for the paper mover. The tray and ink motors normally ...

Stepper motors are often used for positioning since they are cost-effective, easy to drive, and can be used in open-loop systems—meaning that they don’t require position feedback like servo motors.