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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How can I reduce speed of motor with motor shield?
I'm using arduino and adafruit to control 4 motors for a little robot.
I have this code example:
#include <AFMotor.h>
AF_DCMotor motor1(1, MOTOR12_1KHZ); // create motor #2, 64KHz pwm
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Brushed DC motor control with Arduıno motor shield
I am working on a wind turbine project and I need to control a brushed DC motor with an Arduino Motor Shield to charge a 12 volt battery.
However, fluctuations are coming from the motor, via this ...
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DC motor not start?
My aim is to create a simple obstacle avoiding robot using Ardunio.
I have used L293D motor shield to drive the DC motors and supply it all with 12V. I am using a sonar module to detect the obstacles....
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When IR Reciver configuer not working DC MOTOR?
I made obstacle avoiding robot using Arduino uno. After that I wont to attach IR reciver to turn on , turn off my ROBOT. Also ,I attach DC motor as fan.With out any ISSUES the following code working ...
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Problem with connecting pins on a arduino board with l239d shield
I have a l239d motor shield just like the adafruit motor shield. I had a question in my mind. While making a robot I came to face this problem that I could not connect my pins from various sensors in ...
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L298N vs Motor Shield R3
I'm new to Arduino and need some clarification on motor drivers.
I was wondering if I can use a L298N instead of the Motor Shield R3, I hope not to be comapring apples to oranges, the doc of the ...
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Is there a shield that can connect 3 servos and 2 dc?
I'm pretty new to arduino and this would be the second project I'll make. I'm planning on using 2 dc motors and 3 servos. As far as I know there is the L293D shield that can connect 4 dc motors and 2 ...
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Pause between switching motor direction
I'm new both to this forum and to Arduino. My robot is comprised of Arduino Uno with Arduino Motor Shield, 12V DC gear motor, and two limit switches. The robot supposed to move endlessly on rails ...
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Arduino motor shield
I'm making a soccer car with arduino. And I have this undocumented motor control shield. So I don't know how to program it. I've tried to code it as if it be an H bridge, but is not working. Someone ...
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Soldered AdaFruit Moto Shield V2 not running motor
This is my first soldering attempt. Attached image shows AdaFruit motor shield V2.3 soldered to an Arduino Mega. But only a subset of pins: explanation below.
The following code; taken from the ...
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DC Motor Pinning the Ada Fruit Moto Shield with the Mega2560 R3
I picked up an AdaFruit Motor Shield V2.3 . The example on the site shows how to code the DC Motor connection
// Create the motor shield object with the default I2C address
Adafruit_MotorShield AFMS ...
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use only one input pin in L293?
I have an L293 motor driver chip, in which the two input pins are used in order to turn the motor forward or reverse, or stop it. So I wοnder if I could use only one input pin, ...
For running mode: ...
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Errors seen whilst compiling with AdaFruit Motor Shield (“invalid library”)
Whenever I compile a sketch, change the Tools > Board selection, or open/close Boards Manager/Library Manager I get the following message in the console:
> WARNING: Spurious .github folder in '...
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How to power two stacked motor shields with one 3S Lipo battery (11.1V)?
I have these 2 motor shields:
Adafruit Motor Shield V2 and
Seed Motor Shield V2.
They are stacked on top of an Arduino UNO.
My question is, how can I power 2 of those motor shields with one 3S Lipo ...
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Is it safe to use the same power source for Arduino and its Motor shield?
Is it safe to use a unique 12V 5A DC power source to feed both Arduino and its connected Motor shield, provided that
the motor (connected to the shield) will eat 3A maximum
the Arduino Vin will get ...
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use more no of batteries for more current for servos,why using motor shield? [closed]
motor driver is for current amplification.for that we could connect more batteries to servos to get more current.but why are we using motor shields?
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Arduino project feasibility
Question completely rewritten
Trying to assess an Arduino project feasibility. New to Arduino... but did a lot of controller programming (assembly), Roboteq (C) and Phidgets (C++) , using various ...
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Motor Shield and HC-06 Bluetooth Module competing for pins
So my problem is this, I have an Arduino Uno with an Adafruit Motor Shield (1.0) and an HC-06 Bluetooth Module and I want to use them at the same time, the problem is that the Motor Shield uses all ...
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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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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 ...
