Stepper Motor

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Hi,

I have a NI USB-6211 control board and I would like to control a stepper motor with it. This is my board:
National Instruents Control Board NI USB-6211
sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/203224

This is the motor that I want to purchase and that I want to control:
Stepper Motor: 2.8 V 1.68A 4.4 kg-cm
robotshop.com/eu/en/soyo-rep … motor.html

This is the driver that I want to purchase and that I want to use with the motor:
Motor Driver: Big Easy Driver
robotshop.com/eu/en/big-easy … ifications

Are these 3 components compatible each other?

Thnks for the help

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Yes, these parts should all be compatible. Although the Soyo stepper motor is unipolar, you can still use it with the Big Easy bipolar motor controller by using only 4 of the 6 wires from the stepper (see the 4 Lead configuration).

The Big Easy Driver can then be controlled using digital output pins from the NI board. I can’t tell if the NI board has 5V-level outputs, or 3.3V-level outputs. The Big Easy Driver uses 5V level by default, but can be modified (with solder bridge) to uses 3.3V instead.

Hope this helps.