Good day guys!
The Mechanical Engineering department at my school was planning on doing a fairly simple dog robot that moved forward, and asked me if I could do the programming part of the project. For this, we would need to use an MCU and connect it with 4 stepper motors. These stepper motors would simple move 360 degrees constantly in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction (depending on what side of the robot they are).
The programming part is simple enough, and I understand how a stepper motor works. However, I did not want to do this project with an Arduino, because I feel that would make it a bit too easy for my taste. I was thinking of doing it with the 40-pin MSP430F5529 MCU. However, even though I understand how stepper motors worked, I have never interfaced with one before. Is it hard to do? Can I do it simply by connecting them to the MSP's GPIO pins? Should I go with Arduino instead? Has any of you guys gone though this experience before?
All tips, replies, and possible places to start with stepper motor interfacing would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,