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Step 10Electronics - Wiring
Each motor has two circuits, or coils in it, and a bipolar stepper has four wires coming out of it, two for each circuit. Most steppers will have a datasheet that will let you know which colour wires lead to which coil. Find out, either using your datasheet, or a multimeter (a bit more about steppers, and how to figure them out on adafruit and this article helped me figure it all out.).
Mine have the red and the blue wire attached to one coil, and the white and the yellow wire on the other coil.
The two motors should be wired up with their coloured wires matching left and right. So on the left hand side, you should have wire pair 1 (red/blue) in the top two terminals, and wire pair 2 (yellow/white) in the bottom two terminals. And on the right, it'll be exactly the same: pair 1 in the top, pair 2 in the bottom.
I stuck my arduino to a bit of foamcore board stuck on the back of my drawing surface. Just makes it a bit easier to deal with.
Push the motorshield into the arduino, and fire it up!
Mine have the red and the blue wire attached to one coil, and the white and the yellow wire on the other coil.
The two motors should be wired up with their coloured wires matching left and right. So on the left hand side, you should have wire pair 1 (red/blue) in the top two terminals, and wire pair 2 (yellow/white) in the bottom two terminals. And on the right, it'll be exactly the same: pair 1 in the top, pair 2 in the bottom.
I stuck my arduino to a bit of foamcore board stuck on the back of my drawing surface. Just makes it a bit easier to deal with.
Push the motorshield into the arduino, and fire it up!
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