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easiest way to drive a stepper motor

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edited 2003-03-11 04:53 in General Discussion
Hi,
I have a bipolar stepper motor with 4 wires and I also have an
EDE1204 IC to drive the motor.
My question is: Is it necessary to use an IC to drive a stepper
motor? All I want to do is send a pulse to the motor to make it step
about 90 degrees in one direction and 90 degrees in another direction
(CW & CCW).
If I can do away the IC, how would I be able to hook up the motor
to basic stamp 2?
Also, my programming skill isn't that good, can someone please
provide a sample code to do what I just described?

Any help will be appeciated.

Mick

Links to the motor and IC:
http://www.allelectronics.com/spec/EDE-1204.pdf
http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?query=stepper%
20motor&type=store&category=search&orderby=INVENTORY%2Estore%
5Fquantity%2CINVENTORY%2Ebrand%2CINVENTORY%
2Emodel&start=16&limitcategory=&template=&searchfields=&match=&searcht
ype=
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