Testing the motor driver

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

This is the first time I have used the SLA7062 so I made up a small test board to make sure everything will be OK. This turns out to be a splendid motor driver and the motors can be driven to very high speeds. The board allows the selection of half, ...

Selecting the motors

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

For general ease of construction and simplicity for the new mouse builder, stepper motors are hard to beat. They are also generally large and heavy. A bit of a search soon turns up a variety of possible motors for Primus. Ideally, we would have a small motor to allow the ...