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Well, yesterday i was cleaning the basement of one of my friend's house when i found this:

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A very good looking box with a lot of interesting stuff in! Motors, mechanics, gears, belts...and whatever people can drem up! Perfect for some cool robotic projects! So i brought everything in my house and i started testing it. I have no idea of where all this stuff came from, it seems a sort of photocophy machine, or something like that. All the guesses are welcomed!

hi, ive bought a stepper motor which has totally six wires...but i dnt know how to run it continuosly..

pls help me in dis and tel all d component details and sequences to run continuously...

thnks 

I ripped apart a couple of flat bed scanners looking for gears. So I have two stepper motors in my kit box that takes up valuable space. If anybody got inspired by this and want to give stepper motors a shot, just give me your adress and I'll send one your way for free in about two weeks (vacation atm).