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  1. 41 plays in one month! not bad :) the first few minutes were kind of a warmup... i am rusty on the turntables ;)

    mixcloud.com/katchwreck/steppe

    #reggae #djmix #mixtape #mixcloud #dub #steppers #audio

  2. Edit: solved, thanks~
    O hivemind of Mastodon, I thereby seek thy help.

    Topics: #arduino #steppers

    The daisywheel of the typewriter is controlled by a [no-name] stepper. The stepper has 6 wires; the wires are very clearly paired [A A# FB1] and [B B# FB2], and [A A# B B#] are connected to a Darlington array which I can control.
    After numerous tinkering I've established that I can rotate the spokes of the daisywheel by pulling down A->A#->B->B# sequence and pulling up everything else. I've tried other patterns I've found online and they didn't seem to work properly, jerking the stepper back and forth. And of course I've tried the Stepper library, and it didn't work at all.

    The problem: doing a full A-A#-B-B# sequence rotates the wheel by more than one character (and the wheel tends to stop between characters, too). How the heck do I do half-steps there? I've been tinkering with this for two evenings now, and this is the point where I'm out of good ideas.