Software Based Stepper Motor Drive Using Personal Computer (PC) And Parallel Port

Mohd Heikal, Abdul Saman (2009) Software Based Stepper Motor Drive Using Personal Computer (PC) And Parallel Port. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This project is about design and implementation of stepper motor driver circuit. Stepper motor driver take input signals for step and direction and output motion on the shaft of the stepper motor. This step and direction signal is come from software running on a pc. Visual Basic software has been use to make a control at pc base. The movement at stepper motor will produce when the driver circuit operates. Parallel port is use to make a connection between driver circuit and computer. To produce a movement at the stepper motor, this project can give a choice to select a method to use at driver circuit. Methods that use are Step- wave, Full-wave, and Half-wave. The method will be select with switching circuit. This paper reports on the design of a device to rotate a mirror assembly through various angles. A small stepper motor rotates the mirror. The objective of this project was to design the necessary circuitry and software to drive the small stepper motor via a laptop computer's parallel port interface. There are three key components to the project design: (1) mechanical drive, (2) hardware to software interface, (3) computer software to drive the stepper motor via a laptop computer. The three components were successfully integrated to rotate of the stepper motor through forty-five degree increments.

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