There are four poles to each of these coils, and they plug right into a standard stepper driver, so to control this board all you need is a basic Arduino and a motor shield. Or a RepRap board ...

The solution is named Ethersweep, and is a small PCB stack that sits on the rear of the common NEMA17-format stepper motor ... with Arduino covering the firmware and host control side in python.

Seeing this Toshiba motor drive ... for pairing with an Arduino’ as it combines operation across 1.8 to 7V with up to 4A drive – so that is Li-ion batteries, 5V USB and 4xAA cells all covers, but ...