Driving 2 steppers and a servo

#1

Hi all, I’m going to purchase the XY plotter kit soon + some extra parts and I’ve got some questions:

  1. I’ve seen there’s a new stepper motor controller in the works, will this be added to the kit soon?

  2. How can I drive 2 steppers (from the kit) + 1 servo? I’d like to stick with the makebrick parts for the extra servo. Should I try and make an addapter to stack 2 me-base shields or can I use I2C broken out from a single base shield? I’ll probably be stacking the me-base ontop of another shield (prob a sensor shield v4 or v5) to break out the other functions I need as well.

  3. Does the makebrick software libraies support multiple me-base shields attacked to the one arduino?

Thanks!

Geordie

PS: Makebrick is freaken awesome

#2

Hi Geordie,

  1. The new stepper motor diver will be on sale soon.

  2. Of course, you can drive 2 steppers + 1 servo from this kit.

  3. Our libraries did not support multiple me-base shields attacked to the one arduino.

Thanks for your support!

#3

Thanks for the fast response Eric!

Will the XY plotter kit be ammended to use the new stepper motor driver?

I know how to do this directly with the Arduino but how would you connect this up using only Makeblock components?

Thanks!

G

#4

Hi Geordie,

  1. The XY plotter kit will not use the new stepper motor driver.

  2. As you can see from the following picture shows we offer a cable that can connect our old stepper driver with Me-Base Shield directly. Then you can connect the servo driver to Port1 ot Port2 on Me-Base Shield.

#5

Perfect, thanks again!

#6

Not at all.

#7