Add a motor direction constant to reverse motor rotation if needed about splitflap HOT 4 CLOSED

hey! did you checked the pins from the board to the arduino? the motor are in the right side (forward to you?)

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I've gotten one batch of motors that turned the opposite direction for whatever reason. These things are so cheap and I think manufactured by a bunch of different companies that you tend to get slightly different products from different vendors. That said, you can change the direction in code fairly easily by reversing the elements of the step_pattern array in splitflap_module.h:

Another thing to keep in mind is that there are two different gear ratios I've seen in motors, as mentioned on the Motor Info wiki page, so you may need to change the _GEAR_RATIO_INPUT and _GEAR_RATIO_OUTPUT values as described in the comment here:

The non-integer 63.684:1 gear ratio seems to be much more common in the 5V version of motors, so you may want to check for that as well if the motor doesn't seem to be aligned right after several full revolutions.

And one question out of curiosity - is the order of wires on your motor connectors Red, Orange, Yellow, Pink, Blue?

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Thanks, reversing the step_pattern did the job.

const uint8_t step_pattern[] = {
  MOT_PHASE_D | MOT_PHASE_A,
  MOT_PHASE_C | MOT_PHASE_D,
  MOT_PHASE_B | MOT_PHASE_C,
  MOT_PHASE_A | MOT_PHASE_B,
};

Didn't have to touch gear ratio. And yes, colors are in the order you mentioned :)

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👍 Going to change the title of this issue to make it a feature request for adding a direction toggle to the code. It really should be easier to flip the direction than reversing an array.

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