Steppers and the Motor Shield
Axman Surplus is awesome. I've been thinking of building a CNC . There are a number of articles on the web that'll walk you through building a CNC, including this one on how to build a desktop CNC . That one, in particular, could use a tool I already have - a Dremel. Anyway, a CNC is complicated. There's a whole language used for communicating with CNC's called g-code , that is pretty much a complete mystery to me. Then there's taking 3-d models and converting them to g-code, and probably any number of details I don't have figured out. It'd be a bigger project than I've tackled so far. But like anything, I've got to start somewhere, so I figured I'd start with equipment I already have. In this case I'm referring to the Motor Shield I got from Adafruit . I built it a while back and then set it aside and never used it. So I figured this was a good time. I'd already figured out how to run a servo on the Arduino, but the Motor Shield has p