Electronic – arduino – Drive 8 Stepper motor simultaneous with different motion

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I have the need to drive 8 stepper motor together and with different motion behavior for each. Could I just get away with 8 stepper control board (easy driver) + an Arduino with enough pin to get the STEP/DIR from each driver and orchestrate all those motor with a nice code.

Or is there more thing to take in consideration ? More advance driver, or more powerful uC ?

Thanks in advance for any tips/suggestions.

Cheers,

Best Answer

I would recommend the L6470 which are a little pricy but worth it. Although a little work on coding at the beginning is needed, it will save you lots of hard work synchronizing all your motors to work with one another and enable you to use a cheaper MCU.

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