Lex Kravitz has designed a ULN2003-based stepper driver board in the Feather board format:
I have several projects that use stepper motors and wanted a simple Feather wing. While Adafruit already makes a Feather motor driver, I designed my own because I wanted to have some buttons and LEDs, as well as a TRRS input port. Costs ~$4 in parts, plus the PCB.
This Feather Wing was made to be hand assembled with through-hole components, which I find easier to put together in small runs. In the future I may make a version with SMD components as well for professional manufacture. I made this to control 5V 28BYJ-48 steppers that are easily available for ~$2-3 each. Often they come with a ULN2003 driver board, if you are thrifty you can grab the chip off the board and move it to this board saving ~50 cents per board.
This board contains:
1) Two 3-pin headers (GND, PWR, and SIG). These can be used to control a servo or additional sensor.
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