Stepper Motor Interfacing Using NI-myRIO

Stepper motors are one of the most indispensable entities of any industrial sector, be it the process industries or the manufacturing industries. Since the invention of wheel by early man, the need for motion has been high and that grew as years passed to indicate the requirement of manufacturing in a flow that is in a moving conveyor belt. Not only in conveyor belts, are stepper motors used in various other units too. Existing stepper motors are programmed through microprocessors, controllers and electrical circuits. LabVIEW a software pioneered by National Instruments has also been used to program them, but using NI-myRIO a new product launched by National Instruments, hasn’t been put to use for such a purpose so far. My-RIO’s extensive abilities has been put to good use in this project where using simple techniques the stepper motor is programmed to operate using a driver circuit according to user’s desired conditions.