An extension board for Arduino which provides functionality for controlling DC/stepper motors and other inductive loads (such as relays and solenoids).
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Problem with wrapping Adafruit Motor Controller function calls in a class
I'm working on an Arduino robot and I ran into a problem when reorganizing my code. I have an Adafruit Motor Shield v2.3 connected to an Arduino Uno. My robot can be controlled using a bluetooth ...
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Trying to figure out how to use an extension board with Pi
I am trying to make the following board work with Raspberry Pi.
Board Name: L293D Motor Drive Shield Expansion Board for Arduino Mega Raspberry Pi
All I need to know is which pins do the following:
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How do I connect components to the Arduino with a motorshield?
How would I connect components to the Arduino with this motor shield?
Thanks :)
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Shield L6474 and motor equiped with a reducer
I use a motor shield based on the L6474 and this library. My motor is equiped with a reducer and i want to use the function SetHome(uint8_t shieldId) but is it going to record the position of the ...
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Should I control each of the four robot wheel separately or wire two from each side together?
I am making a remote controlled Arduino robot. I has 4 DC motors for wheels. I have 2 motor drivers available that control two dc motors each. I was wondering what the downsides are of wiring 2 dc ...
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Ardupilot APM 3.1 to run DC motors using motorshield
I am working on APM 3.1 to make an autonomous vehicle. I checked on net most of people are using brush-less motors with esc which I know how to connect to APM and r/c receiver. I want to use separate ...
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Motor 4 runs… only when running the stepper on the other side?
I'm using the old-adafruit-arduino-shield I bought from Sainsmart awhile ago, and I was glad to see it has good performance moving a stepper motor (4 wires, connected to motor-#1 and #2). However, the ...
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motor does not move without Serial.println
having strange behavior with motor shield and steppers. when i'm trying to make onestep, motor just makes some high-frequent noise, but when i add Serial.println for debugging, it moves as intended.
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How can I control 4 DC motors with an Arduino?
In a few months, I am planning to construct an Arduino robot with multiple sensors etc. I will use an arduino mega and a 4wd chassis like the one here: Chassis. The chassis uses 4 DC motors. I was ...
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how do I power my motor shield without an arduino uno?
I want to power my motor shield without my UNO. I have connected the +ve and -ve terminals resulting in lighting up of the LED.
Is there any way to control the motors in this arrangement from the ...
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What is the wiring of arduino motor shield to Nano?
I have the basic version of the stepper motor driver and a Nano, I see the pins are set to plug directly in to a Uno or similar Arduino, but according to the documentation it just needs most of the ...
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Some good arduino motor drives
I need some motor drives that can control a dc motors with 10-15 A and 25 V. I can't find any shield that can do the job. I need to control 4 motors with these.
Can You suggest me some models that are ...
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Arduino original motor shield can not supply enough torque to the motor?
I am using original Arduino motor shield L298P with Arduino uno.
I disassembled an electric screw driver which came out with a 4.8 v battery pack and a 4.8v specified DC motor.
I connected battery ...
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Can this Motor shield support other arduino functions?
http://www.flipkart.com/grab-em-l293d-motor-driver-arduino-shield/p/itmehvzzpzj4wyby?pid=ETYEHVZZFFHRFMFG
I want to ask whether this shield will allow me to use the free pins of arduino for other ...
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Using L293 as step-down convertor
If my power source provides 12V, and my motors are rated for 3V-6V, will it be OK to use the L293 motor shield and just provide the PWM pin of the motor shield with 25%?
Is it a feasible option?
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Controlling brushless gimbal motor
I'm using a standard board for control this type of motor (SimpleBGC), this board uses an atmeg328p e some brushless drivers. I'm writing a simple code for turn left/right with some velocity, but i'm ...
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Motor controller for 24v motor, Arduino Uno
I need a motor controller for a 24v motor and I want to control it using än Arduino Uno. Suggestions?
The motor needs to run both directions and is going to draw about 5A
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Making my own motor shield [closed]
My motor shield is not working while feeding codes to rotate motors. Now making my own motor shield. May anyone help me how to make one???
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Only 1 DC motor spinning with motor driver l298N and arduino UNO? [closed]
So, I am making an RC Car and the problem is, that when the two motors i have should go forward, only one does, and when I turn off one motor, the other one works normally... I am powering the motor ...
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Troubleshooting duplicate libaries (Arduino motor shield and stepper motor)
I have tried a software. It work flawless on the first laptop in a fresh install arduino IDE environment with the libraries I imported.
However when I copy the exact same program over. I get lot of ...
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Problem with my Arduino project
I am making a smart bin which automatically sense (with the help of IR sensor ) and dispose the trash by moving with help of DC geared motor 12V 60 RPM and it also detects for obstacles with the help ...
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2WD robot - logic error
I am making a basic 2WD robot using Arduino Uno with motor shield.
I am getting no compile errors - but something in my logic flow is not working as expected.
Expected Operation:
Ping sensor does ...
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How to make servo rotate for angle bigger than 180°
Connected servo motor (180°) to Arduino Uno R3.
Currently I am using a servo motor which have rotation angle specified as 180°, but I have a requirement to rotate to certain angles greater that 180°.
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Debugging arduino shield for varying voltage
I'm using this motor shield for arduino from adafruit. It says it can drive 4 DC motors with it. However, two terminals M3 & M4 (as marked in the image) seem to be supplying lesser voltage.
To ...
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Arduino water pump not working and beeping
I’m new to Arduino and am trying to build a plant watering system without much knowledge on the subject. But my water pump is not working as I expected it to.
I wanted to keep it simple so I bought ...
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Motor shield with 2 gear motors and one Infrared receiver
I think I have a problem with the power supply in the following circuit. I have an Arduino Uno, a motor shield (original Arduino) and a 5V Infrared receiver.
I want the robot to move forward if I ...
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How to program pressure sensor and motor with motor shield
I was working on controlling a high power motor with a heavy duty motor controller, and I was able to make my motor spin, but I wasn't able to incorporate a program for my pressure sensor and make it ...
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What variables to declare for controlling a motor with high power motor controller
I was getting started with programming a motor controller with the Arduino Uno, in this case it's a mega motor shield (the motor driver shield I'm using).
The problem I have doing this is that I'm ...
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Stepper motor doesn't start immediately when i pressed the button
When I release my hand from the button on pin 2, the stepper motor takes at least few seconds to stop, but I want it stop immediately. here's my codes:
#include <Stepper.h>
const int ...
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Shield board with holes, do I need to solder?
I have a motor shield.
I can put it on top of my arduino Mega and works perfect.
However, since the shield plugs in on top of the arduino board, I don't have access to 5V and GND from Arduino Mega.
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Motor shield causing problems with interrupts?
I am making a controller for a model railway turntable and I need to control a single DC motor and read a hall effect sensor. I have the hall effect sensor connected to pin 2 on my Uno (since 2/3 are ...
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Calibrate motors using arduino
I'm trying to create a car that's being controlled by an Arduino.
I'm using the following chasis:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item-img/New-2WD-car-chassis-DC-gear-motor-wheels-easy-assembly-and-...
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Can an L293D motor driver shield do microstepping?
I bought a L293D motor driver shield and have used it with a pre-made sketch for driving a pair of stepper motors, but I'm not familiar with its capabilities.
The sketch I've used so far doesn't use ...
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Motor shield only holds one stepper in place at a time
I bought this motor shield and have it wired up to two stepper motors and one servo, used for a polar drawbot like this one.
I've used EasyDriver boards before to control steppers, and when a motor ...
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Speeding up Arduino DC Motors
I am using the Adafruit Motor Shield v2.3 for Arduino Uno. I am using the analogWrite() command to power my DC motor and have set the speed to 255. Is there any way to speed up the Arduino motor even ...
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Why is my Adafruit motor shield not spinning my motors?
I'm using the Adafruit Motor Shield v2.3. I'm powering the Arduino with a USB cable and I'm powering the motor shield with a 9 volt battery.
I removed the vin pin, and I'm using this tutorial/code to ...
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DCMotorTest from the Adafruit site – got fatal error exit status 1
New to Arduino, I plugged in DCMotorTest from the Adafruit site and got this error message: a fatal error exit status 1
/*
This is a test sketch for the Adafruit assembled Motor Shield for Arduino ...
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How to add .h file to ino
I'm using the arduino along with a Raspberry pi. For this, I'm using ino to compile sketches through the command line. I now want to use the adafruit motor shield along with my arduino. This requires ...
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Best 2a stepper motor driver for Arduino Uno
What is the simplest (from a user/install standpoint) 2a stepper motor driver for an Arduino Uno?
I would like something simple and easy to stack like the Adafruit Motor/Stepper/Servo Shield for ...
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Need help converting a processing sketch for a robot arm with servo shield
I'm currently building a robotic arm. I'm using an Adafruit servo shield, 7 servos, Arduino uno, and a 5V 10A power supply.
I found a program that controls the arm with mouse movement using a ...
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Arduino motor shield vs Adafruit motor shield
What's the different between arduino motor shield and adafruit motor shield?
Can I use adafruit library on arduino motor shield?
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Move robot through the waypoints
My arduino robot has two dc motors as two wheels and have mounted an IR led on it. I get current position of the robot as (x,y) coordinates in the arena using camera which is mounted at the top of the ...
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Student Project Inquiry(Building a Self Balancing robot)
I am currently building a self balancing robot using an L298N motors driver,and MPU6050 using an arduino microcontroller.
I managed to control my motors movements with no issues. After I extracted ...
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Arduino Program uses less RAM then expected and doesn't run
I am trying to make a program for my Arduino that will run 4 motors with random actions (forward,backward,left,right) and execution is determined by a random number generator. When I compile there is ...
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adding a dead band to my motor and gearbox
I have a motor and gearbox that has limits and a pot built in.
I have some code what drives the motor one way to when it hits its limits takes a value and drives the other way and takes a value, then ...
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Arduino Motor Shield
It seems that I can't get the DC Motor function to work while also having servos driven off the other ports :(
#include "Arduino.h"
#include <Servo.h>
int pinI1=8;//define I1 interface
int ...
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Arduino car on bluetooth remote appears to crash when motors started
I built a Arduino robot car which accepts instructions via bluetooth. The instructions are pretty simple, they tell the car to stop, go forward, reverse, turn left or turn right.
When I have the car ...
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Monster moto shield + Arduino +Pololu 12V, 29:1 Gear Motor Encoder hardware problem
Overflow enthusiasts!
I am trying to build a balancing robot with two wheels, using the polulu gear motor as mentioned above. In order to have a strong motor driver,the monster moto shield is used in ...
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Newbie need help to make a motor run for a laser scanner and some questions
I am trying to make a laser scanner consisting of a webcam and a line laser scanner. I have tried to use a manual scanning (by hand) and has worked, but would now like to consider automating the laser ...
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Two motors in one set of pins/plugs
I have been putting together a small robot using an Arduino Motor Shield R3. The shield has two sockets for motors, however the wheel carriage I bought has four motors. I tried putting both right side ...
