The use of active cardan joints is restricted by torque capacity of small motors, and currently embedded devices have been mandatory for robotic applications. The dynamic control is essential to learn the limitations of this device, thus the objective of this study is to control active cardan joints of three degrees of freedom using numerical simulations and bench experiment. The manipulator was designed with only one cardan joint to understand its kinematics and dynamics and, for this reason, it was built with load sensors on its base and inertial motion unit sensor at the top of the manipulator end-effector. Furthermore, three control boards were manufactured: the first was designed to control the three stepper motor drives, the second was designed to read the inertial motion unit sensor, and the last was designed to read the load sensors. Four problems were described to test the limits of this device, analysing not only the kinematics and dynamics, but also the bearing friction, the backlash identification, and the impact torque. The first problem keeps the position of the manipulator end-effector constant transmitting rotation between the shafts. The second problem is given a planned path to the manipulator endeffector, such as a circle, but it does not transmit rotation between the shafts. The third problem is the combination of the previous motions, where the manipulator end-effector applies the output spin, while it follows by a planned path. The fourth problem, a new approach is applied to move the manipulator end-effector from one point to another point using a conical rotation.