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Stepper Motor key control - cel - Jul-24-2020
Hello,
I'm writing a program to control a stepper motor using keyboard presses. The problem I'm having is that once I press a key to start the motor turning in one direction, I don't know how to interrupt the movement to either stop it or turn it in a different direction. I tried adding an if statement within one of the for loops but that did not work.
import curses
import time
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
screen = curses.initscr()
curses.noecho()
curses.cbreak()
screen.keypad(True)
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)
ControlPin = [7,11,13,15]
for pin in ControlPin:
GPIO.setup (pin, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.output (pin, 0)
seq2 = [[1,0,0,0],
[1,0,0,0],
[0,1,0,0],
[0,1,0,0],
[0,0,1,0],
[0,0,1,0],
[0,0,0,1],
[0,0,0,1],
[1,0,0,0],]
seq3 = [[1,0,0,0],
[0,0,0,1],
[0,0,0,1],
[0,0,1,0],
[0,0,1,0],
[0,1,0,0],
[0,1,0,0],
[1,0,0,0],
[1,0,0,0],]
try:
while True:
char = screen.getch()
if char == ord('q'):
break
# right turning
elif char == curses.KEY_RIGHT:
for i in range(512):
print("right")
if char == curses.KEY_LEFT or char == 10:
break
for halfstep in range(9):
for pin in range(4):
GPIO.output(ControlPin[pin], seq2[halfstep][pin])
time.sleep(0.001)
# left turning
elif char == curses.KEY_LEFT:
for i in range(512):
print("left")
if char == curses.KEY_RIGHT or char == 10:
break
for halfstep in range(9):
for pin in range(4):
GPIO.output(ControlPin[pin], seq3[halfstep][pin])
time.sleep(0.001)
# stop
elif char == 10:
for i in range(512):
print("stop")
if char == curses.KEY_LEFT or char == curses.KEY_RIGHT:
break
for halfstep in range(9):
for pin in range(4):
GPIO.output(ControlPin[pin], seq2[halfstep][pin])
time.sleep(0.001)
GPIO.cleanup()
except:
GPIO.cleanup()
print("error")
RE: Stepper Motor key control - DPaul - Jul-24-2020
For a stepper motor you need to know how many steps there are in 360 degrees, for simplicity say 360 steps.
(You may have one that does only 90 degrees or.180...)
You don't stop a stepper motor, you call your forward or backward routine with a number of steps, say 90.
It should make a quarter turn then.
Paul
RE: Stepper Motor key control - cel - Jul-25-2020
Thank you DPaul for the advice and I fixed the problem.