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All arduino users unite! Howdy.

I had an idea to use an arduino uno for a test rig. I’ve got a cable assembly I want to test and cycle/bend with a stepper motor, and count the # cycles/time.

I’ve got the mechanical layout ready. I need to wire up the arduino. It’ll have to do the following:

  1. drive a stepper motor with an adafruit motor shield

  2. monitor 5 circuits for continuity

  3. record elapsed time

Do you guys know if the uno is capable to do all this? My plan is to connect the circuits to resistors, and run small current, so once a circuit I broken current will not run. Then feed this data into the arduino some ways, so it monitors the current flow in each circuit separately. Once any of the 5 circuits is broken it’ll record the elapsed time, once all circuits are broken it’ll stop the stepper motor.

Any ideas/help is appreciated,

Thank you!

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dibloff:
Do you guys know if the uno is capable to do all this?

I would think so. I don't know what pins the Adafruit shield uses but it's a reasonable guess to say "none of the analog pins". So an Uno should be capable of commanding the motor to cycle and then sequentially checking the status of 5 voltages (via the analog pins) before repeating the whole cycle again and again and ...