Floppy Tones - Attempt 3 - Two Shift Registers and Two Drives

Floppy disk drives being controlled by two 8 bit shift registers. One register controlls the drive direction and the other ticks the step motor. This allows for up to 8 drives to be controlled synchronously. This is just a proof of concept, so two random frequencies are plaid on a loop.

Important note: The order of voltage changes!

Pulse the direction pin, with the step pin, to set the direction:
shiftOut(dataPin, clockPin, MSBFIRST, B00000000);
shiftOut(dataPin, clockPin, MSBFIRST, B00000011);

With the direction pin still, so its in the same direction, pulse the step pin:
shiftOut(dataPin, clockPin, MSBFIRST, B00000011);
shiftOut(dataPin, clockPin, MSBFIRST, B00000011);

Drop the voltage on the direction pin and step pin (now we have changed direction)
shiftOut(dataPin, clockPin, MSBFIRST, B00000000);
shiftOut(dataPin, clockPin, MSBFIRST, B00000000);

Pulse the step pin with the direction still low
shiftOut(dataPin, clockPin, MSBFIRST, B00000011);
shiftOut(dataPin, clockPin, MSBFIRST, B00000000);

 

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