{"id":65,"date":"2011-04-26T16:11:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T16:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2011-04-27T16:14:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:14:58","slug":"arduino-adafruit-motor-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Arduino: Adafruit Motor Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally had to give in and get a motorshield for the Arduino. I purchased it from RobotShop<\/a> not knowing that it was a kit (i.e. you build it yourself). I should have read the title of the item a little better. It was fun to build the shield with these instructions PDF<\/a>. It helped me build up some soldering skills. Fortunately, I bought some soldering flux paste from Radio Shack<\/a> which helped me keep my work clean. The shield lets me power up to 4 DC motors, 2 servos or 2 stepper motors. You can use it to power bigger motors using an external power supply. The shield has 4 H-Bridges provided by L293D chipset.<\/p>\n

I set it up with a RC car which has 2 motors for steering and forward\/reverse movement.<\/p>\n

All the instruction on how to build the motorshield and how to use it with the library are available on this ladyada.net<\/a> website<\/p>\n\n\t\t