Questions tagged [arduino-motor-shield]
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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Question different ways of connecting L298N motor driver board to arduino and motors and powering them
I read few posts and tutorials on this topic but none of them kind of answered my questions. I bought this L298N motor board and i have two motors that are rated 3V
Now i am trying to understand how ...
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H-Bridge vs Motor shield for the arduino
Assuming we wish to control a small toy car with an arduino - meaning spinning the right and left wheels forward and backward and being able to break and control the speed, where each wheel has it's ...
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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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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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Stacking Arduino Shield (Motor Shield, LCD Keypad, LED Sensor)
I'm building a line follower with arduino, here some part that I'm going to use
Arduino Uno
Motor Shield 2A http://www.dfrobot.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=69
LCD Keypad
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What is the difference between a motor driver and a motor shield?
what is the difference between a motor driver(like L293D) and a motor shield?
what are the advantage?disadvantages of both?
And which one do you suggest ?
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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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How can I connect the Tamiya double gearbox to Arduino Uno?
I'm working on building my first robot. this is my first foray into DIY electronics. I already have an Arduino Uno, and I have ordered the Tamiya double gearbox here. My goal is to control the gearbox ...
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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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Arduino motor shield will only work in one direction
I have this Arduino motor shield which is hooked up with two DC motors. The board is the same as this one from Sparkfun.
A PWM output controls the speed of the motor, and a digital out controls the ...
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Shield Compatible third party motor driver
I recently purchased an Arduino UNO along with some other hardware. At the time of purchase, I didn't know about Arduino's motor shield and so I purchased a two channel stepper motor driver (2A per ...
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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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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 Uno + Ardumoto + BT robot works from USB but not from baterries
My Arduino UNO board is part of a small robot that works when connected to the laptop by USB but it does not when plugged to the batteries. The baterries plug seems okay, it outputs 7.8 V. My UNO is ...
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Seeeduino Motor Shield Power Supply
I'm looking to drive two DC motors (on a toy RC car) using a Seeeduino and Seeed Motor Shield V2, but can't manage to get the power scheme right. Right now, a 9V battery connected to the shield powers ...
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Debugging a RadioShack Arduino motor/sensor shield
I bought a cheap "Make" kit at RadioShack, which includes some sort of proprietary Arduino Uno compatible motor/sensor shield. Naturally, the documentation is pretty bad. The documentation and Arduino ...
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Motor shield leaves no pins accessible
I just bought a motor shield for my UNO, in the pic below:
Plugging it into the uno leaves no pins accessible on the board. I’d like to use it to build a robot car, but there’s nowhere to plug in the ...
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Is it possible to increase the voltage on 3.3v output to 5v on an ESP board to power a DC motor? [closed]
I am trying to use an ESP32s controller connected to an RC car DC motor. I found that when using my Arduino this is easily accomplished, and I can see that my output pin produces 5v for the motor to ...
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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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Do I need the Motor Shield to drive servo motors?
I was perusing Arduino's list of official shields and noticed the Motor Shield that can be used to drive up to 2 servo motors.
Being brand new to Arduino/robotics, I am wondering: do I really need ...
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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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Are these lcd and motor-shields stackable?
first of all, I'm kindly apologizing for asking such stupid questions, but as my electronic-knowledge is dramatically limited, you are my only hope to get my problem solved.
I'm pretty new to Arduino ...
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Arduino project feasibility
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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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Is there some sample code for operating a servo with an Adafruit Motor Shield?
I have an Adaruit Motor Shield v2, and a Tower Pro SG92R micro servo. I've got it setup so the shield works with my Arduino Uno, and I've successfully tested using other types of motors on the shield. ...
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Choosing a proper power source for for basic RC car with 4 motors [closed]
Help me to choose a power source for the below project:
4x DC Motors (3V~6V DC each with ~170mA),
1x Micro Servo Motor (4.8V~6V),
1x Ultrasonic sensor
1x Bluetooth sensor
It is basically an RC car. ...
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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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Motor shield and wireless transceiver compete for same pins
I would like to use these 2 components with an Arduino Uno:
Arduino Motor Shield R3
nRF24L01 2.4GHz Wireless Transceiver
I use Stepper for the motor shield, and SPI + RF24 for the wireless ...
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L293D motorshield with batteries doesn't power Arduino
Recently I came across a video about a guy building a remote Bluetooth-controlled Arduino car and I was quite amazed. So I decided I wanted to build it too. I have no Arduino or electronics experience ...
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Arduino Obstacle Avoiding Shield controlor motor L293D
I am a beginner with Arduino. I wanted to make an Arduino obstacle avoiding. So I ordered last week an L293D Shield Motor Driver and I don't know if what I receive is a good item. The first picture is ...
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Attempts with Sainsmart Motor Shield Not Working
I received the sainsmart motor controller a few days ago, and am now having trouble testing it. The Arduino I am using is an Arduino Mega 2560. I thought it was an I2C communication issue but that ...
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Motor running during Motor Shield R3 reset
I have a problem with the Arduino Motor Shield R3 on an Arduino Uno. I Have a DC Motor on the A Channel and the Shield is connected to an external power source. When I reset the Arduino card the motor ...
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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, ...
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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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Motor shield code [closed]
I am working on a project using an Arduino Uno and a motor driver shield to move a car with an IRremote. But the vehicle is only moving forward and backward. I want it to move left and right. Kindly ...
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Arduino motor driver 3.7v
I am planning to build my own micro quadcopter, so I bought an Arduino 101 and 3.7v micro DC motor.
So the next step is finding a motor driver that can control these four motors, using PWM pins on ...
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Issue regarding executing sketch code when not connected to USB
`I have an Arduino Uno A000066 Board R3 that has an Arduino A000079 Motor Shield Rev3 attached to it. Also I have connected two DC Servo Motors to the Motor Shield and wrote the following sequence:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Monster moto shield + Arduino +Pololu 12V, 29:1 Gear Motor Encoder hardware problem
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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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Coding for Seeed Arduino motor shield
I acquired a Seeed studio Arduino motor shield V.2 and wanted to start using it. The problem is that there is like no good example code. The library for the shield on the seeed website has one example ...
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Motor Shield with 4 DC motors + small servo, which battery is suitable?
I am building my first 4wd vehicle with Adafruit motor shield with one Ultrasonic sensor and one small servo to move sensor.
I am facing some problems.
Bought 4 motors (2 GM9 and 2 GM3), found the ...
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Driving stepper motors adafruit motor shield v2
I got an Arduino Uno Rev3 and Adafruits Motor Shield V2. I also got two RepRap stepper motors:
Frame size 42 x 42mm - NEMA 17
1.8 degree step angle
Length 47mm
Holding torque 44 N.cm (4.4kg.cm, 62oz....
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Arduino Robot won't move
I am building a robot for a school project. I use an Arduino Uno, 2 dc motor's and an Ultra Sonic range measurement module. I want the robot to be autonomous, he has to be able to move around on his ...
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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 driver only works on one side:
I have 3 motor drivers and all 3 other them only seem to only work on one of the 2 sides. I have used a voltmeter to check the voltages across the each of the 2 sections on each motor driver. For all ...
