I hope you enjoyed taking a look at a smarter-than-usual stepper motor driver, as one of the new frontiers of DIY 3D printing, and as an interesting component with many other applications.

The ‘motor’ part of this motor is a carriage with two field windings. It’s an unrolled stepper motor, basically, and could run a 3D printer much faster without as much slop and backlash.

While the old war horse of 3d printer stepper drivers, the Allegro A4988, does not have all the fancy quiet operation stuff, it does only needs a small heatsink to maintain itself below its thermal ...

Now one intrepid 3D printer owner has been able to rig their 3D printer stepper motors to play the iconic Imperial March from the Star Wars films, providing a much more enhanced audio version ...

Current 3D printers are equipped with stepper motors which are easy to command, Stellamove has removed these motors from its 3D printer and replacedthem with DC motors because of their dynamic ...