Recently picked up some cheap stepper motors from AllElectronics:
Epson SMT65 - http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/item/SMT-65/400/SMALL_STEPPER_MOTOR_W_6_LEADS_.html
Epson SMT42 - http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/item/SMT-42/400/STEPPER_MOTOR,_EPSON_.html
Folks on the discussion boards vary as to whether these are unipolar or bipolar or even universal steppers.
Scherz's Practical Electronics for Inventors has a good section on identifying stepper motors on pages 421-422.
This book is available online through eBrary for Stanford students:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/stanford/Doc?id=10015286
O'Sullivan and Igoe also have notes on stepper motors in the Physical Computing book, available through eBrary for Stanford students:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/stanford/Doc?id=10082102
For unipolar steppers, use a Darlington Transistor array:
Jameco#700630 ULN2004AN DIP
Data sheet: http://www.jameco.com/Jameco/Products/ProdDS/700630.pdf
For bipolar steppers, you'll want to use an H Bridge:
Jameco sells SN754410NE quad half-H bridge ICs:
http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&productId=1054684
Hobby Engineering in Millbrae has them as well, along with a data sheet:
http://info.hobbyengineering.com/specs/SN754410.pdf
Here's a Nuts and Volts article on a stepper motor driver:
http://www.nutsvolts.com/PDF_Files/stepper.pdf
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