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Re: Motor suggestions for rubiks cube scrambler

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Originally Posted by phantomoperator View Post
I like the stepper motor idea. For our design we would need to control 5 motors. Our designs involves having little fixed jaws that fit around the center piece of the cube. We concluded that in order to fully scramble the cube we must turn 5 of the six faces.

Does any one have suggestions on a controller board?
How about a RAMPS 1.4 like they use for RepRap 3D printers.
That will handle 5.5 steppers...one is a split signal.