ON Semiconductor (www.onsemi.com) is proud to announce the launch of its two important latest products specifically designed for the industrial market sector at this year’s Electronica. Designed to enable current and next generation office and home automation applications, the manufacturer’s wide range of industrial devices provides market-leading levels of reliability and ruggedness to support the […]
Stepper Motors
Toshiba Electronics introduces motor driver ICs for arcade games, card readers
Toshiba Electronics Europe (www.toshiba-components.com) is proud to announce the release of its two high-voltage, high current motor driver ICs, which are designed to simplify stepper motor-based designs in various industrial and office automation applications. The TB62215FNG and TB62213FNG, based on a PWM constant current drive scheme, are single-chip two-phase bipolar stepper motor drivers that can […]
Servo2Go.com Expands Line of Integrated Step Motors
Greenville, DE– Servo2Go.com has expanded it’s line of Integrated Step Motors to include many new NEMA 17 frame models. Manufactured by Applied Motion Products, the STM is a Drive + Motor + Control unit, fusing step motor and drive technologies into a single device, offering savings on space, wiring and cost over conventional motor and […]
Arduino Pro Mini controls Gimme to track a person’s movement
Chris Eckert, a San Jose artist, has been working up on “Gimme” – a prototype for a pan-handling sculpture. It is controlled by Arduino Pro Mini, a microcontroller board based on the ATmega168 that utilizes sensors to track the movement of a person, and once they are found, the sculpture automatically solicits money. Gimme’s stepper […]
Techno announces new multi-axis stepper controller
Techno, Inc. Linear Motion Systems (www.techno-isel.com) is proud to announce the release of the all-new iMC-P1 multi-axis stepper controller – a single- to four-axis controller complete with power supply, drives, I/O, software and enclosure. The new stepper controller can be used in a wide range of applications including dispensing, pick-and-place, testing, assembly, routing, welding, drilling, […]
Stepper motors power Open Date’s thermal transfer printer
UK-based Open Date Equipment (www.opendate.co.uk) is proud to announce the release of its Thermocode iQ thermal transfer printer. “The iQ has advantages in both print accuracy and reduced operating costs compared with other machines, while maintaining the speed and precision associated with more expensive models. It is designed to operate with all intermittent labeling and […]
New Egg-Bot Kit uses motion control
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories (www.evilmadscientist.com), in collaboration with Bruce Shapiro, Brian Schmalz and Ben Trombley, revealed the latest Egg-Bot – a machine that can draw on spherical or egg-shaped surfaces with incredible precision. The kit is comprised of a chassis, pen-lifting servo motors, two stepping motors, USB cable, a power supply, a controller board and […]
High Torque Hybrid Stepper Motors from Applied Motion Products
Greenville, Del. – Servo2Go announces a new NEMA 24 frame series of high torque hybrid stepper motors. Manufactured by Applied Motion Products (AMP), the HT24 motors are a new frame size stepper motor offering up to 30% more torque than the previous HT23 series in a similar package size. The only significant difference in size […]
B&R Automation’s new stepper motors
B&R Automation (www.br-automation.com) is proud to introduce the new 80MPF series stepper motors with 60mm flanges described as cost-effective and powerful. The 80MPF series stepper motors, with 30% less power loss and 25% more torque, are ideal for applications with high clock rates such as filling systems or packaging machines. The 60mm 80MPF, 86mm 80MPH […]
ROHM’s Microstep Motor Drivers offer reliability, high performance
ROHM Semiconductor USA LLC (www.rohmelectronics.com) is proud to introduce its new high-reliability, high-performance stepper motor drivers that offer selectable excitation modes-full-step to 16th-step with 1.0A or 2.0A output current and full-step to 8th-step with 2.5A output current. The microstep drivers allow designers to optimize motor torque, vibration and noise for a variety of applications. The […]