Hi all,

I recently offered some surplus stepper motor kits to a school
program intended to foster and mentor the technically-minded

So far there've been no takers, although other items like LCDs,
LEDs and basic components do move quite readily. Shiny things

I made a couple of suggestions, such as an experimenter's wind
turbine (with the motor as the generator, seems a bit of a waste
of a good motor though), a mini-milling machine, X-Y plotter
type things, robotic arms etc

Some of those would require quite some engineering though which
I guess would put the average student off. Probably why the shiny
things are snapped up

The questions is then, what DO you use steppers for. Searching the
web brings up no end of people who can tell you how to drive them
but very few ideas about what to do next

I'd be grateful for any ideas that would help me encourage students
to try stepper motors in a practical and useful project, preferably a
simple one without too much engineering

TIA

Joe
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