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Arduino nano stepper motor clock

A very simple clock made with 2 Arduino nanos and two stepper motors.

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino Nano R3

Stepper motor 28BYJ-48

Breadboard (generic)

Jumper wires (generic)

Story

From my previous projects you can tell I am about clocks. I wanted to make a clock using a stepper motor controlled by Arduino nano to indicate the hour and another nano and stepper motor to indicate the minute. The stepper motors are from ROHS and are 28BYJ-48 5VDC available from Banggood or Wish for about $3 each. They come with control board and jumper wires ready to hook up. The hook up is really simple just follow directions in the stepper motor example (the stepper motor control example is available from get-hub or usually downloads with Arduino programming.)

The only changes necessary in the stepper motor control files is to change the delay time in the loop function. For the minute motor start with a delay of about 1800 and for the hour motor use a delay of about 21600. To adjust the timekeeping you might have to tweak the delay time a little according to the motor variability.

The dials I prepared (printed from internet) are mounted on CD's and the stepper motors are hot glued to the back of the CD's

Since the hookup is described in the stepper motor control example and all it amounts to is plug and play no schematic is included.

Hands shown are cut from thin plastic and painted black.

/* 
 Stepper Motor Control - one step at a time
 
 This program drives a unipolar or bipolar stepper motor. 
 The motor is attached to digital pins 8 - 11 of the Arduino.
 
 The motor will step one step at a time, very slowly.  You can use this to
 test that you've got the four wires of your stepper wired to the correct
 pins. If wired correctly, all steps should be in the same direction.
 
 Use this also to count the number of steps per revolution of your motor,
 if you don't know it.  Then plug that number into the oneRevolution
 example to see if you got it right.
 
 Created 30 Nov. 2009
 by Tom Igoe
 
 */

#include <Stepper.h>

const int stepsPerRevolution = 200;  // change this to fit the number of steps per revolution
                                     // for your motor

// initialize the stepper library on pins 8 through 11:
Stepper myStepper(stepsPerRevolution, 8,9,10,11);            

int stepCount = 0;         // number of steps the motor has taken

void setup() {
  // initialize the serial port:
  Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop() {
  // step one step:
  myStepper.step(1);
  Serial.print("steps:" );
  Serial.println(stepCount);
  stepCount++;
  delay(1800);
}

/* 
 Stepper Motor Control - one step at a time
 
 This program drives a unipolar or bipolar stepper motor. 
 The motor is attached to digital pins 8 - 11 of the Arduino.
 
 The motor will step one step at a time, very slowly.  You can use this to
 test that you've got the four wires of your stepper wired to the correct
 pins. If wired correctly, all steps should be in the same direction.
 
 Use this also to count the number of steps per revolution of your motor,
 if you don't know it.  Then plug that number into the oneRevolution
 example to see if you got it right.
 
 Created 30 Nov. 2009
 by Tom Igoe
 
 */

#include <Stepper.h>

const int stepsPerRevolution = 200;  // change this to fit the number of steps per revolution
                                     // for your motor

// initialize the stepper library on pins 8 through 11:
Stepper myStepper(stepsPerRevolution, 8,9,10,11);            

int stepCount = 0;         // number of steps the motor has taken

void setup() {
  // initialize the serial port:
  Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop() {
  // step one step:
  myStepper.step(1);
  Serial.print("steps:" );
  Serial.println(stepCount);
  stepCount++;
  delay(21600);
}

Credits

garysat

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Arduino nano stepper motor clock

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Code for the Minute control

Code for the Hour control

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Arduino nano stepper motor clock

Arduino nano stepper motor clock

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Story

Code

Code for the Minute control

Code for the Hour control

Credits

garysat

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