STEP400

STEP400 is a 4-axis stepper motor driver designed for art or design projects. STEP400 combines the following elements into one single board:

• Arduino Zero
• Ethernet shield
• Four stepper motor drivers
• Sensor inputs for homing and limiting

The current firmware is focused on working with Open Sound Control (OSC) via Ethernet, which is a common protocol for creative coding environments, like openFrameworks, Processing, Max, Unity, or Touch Designer.

Stepper driver chips are STMicroelectronics's powerSTEP01 which provide most of functionalities as a stepper driver.

Friend of STEP400 : STEP800

Store

https://ponoor.com/en/shop/

Documentation

https://ponoor.com/en/docs/step-series/

Forum: https://github.com/ponoor/step-series-support/discussions

Repository Contents

Firmware

Important Note: The latest firmware is available at STEP-series Universal Firmware repository. Following directories and Releases are not maintained anymore.

• /STEP400_firmware : Arduino Sketch folder
• /firmware-platformio/STEP400_firmware : PlatformIO folder

Hardware

/hardware : Eagle design files, BOM lists, and schematics PDFs

Others

/configTool : The configuration tool consists of a html and JavaScritpts.

Firmware dependency

• OSC Library from CNMAT
• Ponoor PowerSTEP01 Library
• ArduinoJSON Library
• Adafruit SleepyDog Arduino Library

Examples

Max

https://github.com/ponoor/step-series-example-Max

Processing

https://github.com/yuskegoto/STEP400_Processing

Contribution of @yuskegoto

openFrameworks

https://github.com/ponoor/step-series-example-openFrameworks

Contribution of @niimi

Unity

https://github.com/ponoor/step-series-example-Unity

Contribution of @niimi

TouchDesigner

https://github.com/ponoor/step-series-example-TouchDesigner

Contribution of @loveandsheep and @yuskegoto

Node-RED

https://github.com/yuskegoto/STEP400_Node-RED

Contribution of @yuskegoto

Python library

https://github.com/ponoor/python-step-series

Contribution of @JulianOrteil