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Rather than write a bunch of stepper motor code himself, he installed and ran a four-axis fork of grbl on the Arduino, turning it into a stepper motor controller.

Experimenters, students, and hobbyists can start with one of four types of BASIC Stamp Programming Kits. The BASIC Stamp Discovery Kit ($160), for example, comes with a software manual and the “What's ...