PIC16F887 Stepper Motor Control

KBM

New Member
Hello everyone, new to this site and coding (moved from stack overflow due to too many sarcastic people).

I am writing a code to control a stepper motor to act as a barrier for a car park;

the motor has to rotate 90* to open and close the gate - via a button (manual operation) and sensors (auto operation)

Although what i have at the moment does not appear to work. What i need at the moment is for someone to tell me how to get it turning 90 degrees both ways by clicking a button for each direction.


Code so far;

void main() {
ANSEL = 0;
ANSELH = 0;

TRISC = 0; // these two essentially enable PORTC to be used
PORTC = 0; // ^
PORTD = 0; // this is to allow for PORTD to be used as control buttons

TRISD.B0 = 1; // setting up PORTD bit 0 as a control button
TRISD.B1 = 1; // setting up PORTD bit 1 as a control button

if (PORTD.B0 == 1); // this should only do this line of code if PORTD bit 0 is pressed
do {
PORTC = 0x09;
Delay_ms(100);
PORTC = 0x0c;
Delay_ms(100);
PORTC = 0x06;
Delay_ms(100);
PORTC = 0x03;
Delay_ms(100);
} while (0);

if (PORTD.B1 == 1); // for some reason it only rotates one way and stops when bit 1 is pressed
do {
PORTC = 0x03;
Delay_ms (100);
PORTC = 0x06;
Delay_ms (100);
PORTC = 0x0c;
Delay_ms (100);
PORTC = 0x09;
Delay_ms (100);
} while (0);

Please be patient with me as i am new to coding but i could really do with the help.

Thank you
 
Two things stick out.....

If(blah = blah); <-- the semi colon finishes the if, so loose the semi colon and encapsulate the conditions arguments with curly braces

Two do while(condition) not zero..
C:
if (PORTD.B0 == 1)  // this should only do this line of code if PORTD bit 0 is pressed
   {
   do {
      PORTC = 0x09;
      Delay_ms(100);
      PORTC = 0x0c;
      Delay_ms(100);
      PORTC = 0x06;
      Delay_ms(100);
      PORTC = 0x03;
      Delay_ms(100);
      } while (correct_position_achieved); // A zero here will only let the DO/WHILE execute once only..
   }
 
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