Tiny stepper motors for analog gauges and flight simulation instruments!

Board uses a Switec X27.168 stepper motor to drive the needle. The Switec is the same motor used in many automotive dashboards, motorcycle instruments and flight and racing simulators. The Switec motor only draws 20ma per coil. This means it can be directly wired to many microcontrollers, including 5 volt Arduino boards, AVR and PIC micros.

This breakout board works great with the Vid6606 4x stepper driver available on this site!

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Interfacing to the Arduino Uno and Mega is made easy using the Vid6606 4x Stepper Driver available on this site. Making flight simulator instruments?? Check out https://www.simvim.com

Also, Guy Carpenter’s SwitecX25 library here: https://github.com/clearwater/SwitecX25 useful programming for other projects Guy also has a full client/server stepper library called Gaugette. https://github.com/clearwater/gaugette

Excellent test program: https://guy.carpenter.id.au/gaugette/2017/04/29/switecx25-quad-driver-tests/

A few ideas are: Temperature, humidity, audio volume, CPU Utilization, internet speed, altitude, battery voltage... the list goes on and on