Stepper Motor Control with Arduino

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Hello Everyone,

I have been using parallel stepper controllers for a few years. I just learned about Arduino for usb control. My question is, can I use 1 Arduino and 2 easy step 3000 stepper controllers to run two 2amp (or less) steppers and maybe 1 or 2 outputs and inputs? Is all I need is the Arduino and easy step 3000’s (except power supplies and miscellaneous). The Arduino looks straight forward and I plan to use C# to program with.

My application is a pano head for a digital slr camera to make 180x360 panpramic tours on web sites.

Thanks for the help,

rhinocat

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The Easy Step 3000 actually has RS-232 and TTL level serial inputs. This means that unless you want a standalone operation requiring a microcontroller, you could simply control the driver directly via a logical COM port in C#. Use a few USB to serial converters if you do not have DB9 ports on your PC.