Sebastians Journey with the nanoMoCo & Graffik

So I finally bought a stepper motor to test the nanoMoCo board and Graffik.

http://www.conrad.at/ce/de/product/198398/Emis-Schrittmotor-E547-52500-12-VDC-Halte-Moment-025-Nm-Phasen-Strom-max-06-A-Wellen-5-mm (sorry - German).

Its a 6 lead stepper motor that can be used both in unipolar and bipolar setups.

I soldered the coil ends to the custom connector provided in the breakout board package as described in the documentation and plugged everything together.

First the USB-To-RS485 adapter which calls itself "Dynamic Perception RS485" can't find a device driver in Win7 when plugged in. I managed to work around that by downloading a driver package from http://www.usconverters.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=15 for the FTDI FT232BL chipset and manually installing the drivers through the windows device manager. The port is then recognized as "USB Serial Converter" and showed up in the available list of Buses when starting Graffik under COM7.