Grand Central not working with the SparkFun AutoDriver board

Robotics
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I have been able to use the example code to get the stepper motor to play “Want you Gone” from the Portal 2 Soundtrack on the Adafruit Grand Central https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-grand-central

This makes me believe that it is possible to use the AutoDriver board with the Grand Central.

However, once trying to do more direct manipulations of the motor the Grand Central is not able to communicate with the AutoDriver.

Here is a link to the AutoDriver’s product page https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/ge … rd-example

I am trying to use the SparkFunGetSetParamTest, in particular, to get feedback from the motor via the AutoDriver back to the uC.

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Hi Philip.

It would be possible to use the AutoDriver with a Grand Central, but because the GC has a different processor and pinout from the Arduino Uno your connections and possibly code will be different. There’s also a possibility that the library may need to be modified to work with a GC.

Sadly we don’t have a hookup guide that shows how to use the board with a GC but given time, and probably some work on the library and code, it should function.