Posted by Circuits Arena on Monday, 11 April 2016
DIY Arduino Motor Shield projects is the artlcle explaining DIY Arduino Motor Shield project Today, I'm going to show you how to make an Arduino motor shield (driver) at a low cost. It wor...
DIY Arduino Motor Shield project
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Today, I'm going to show you how to make an Arduino motor shield
(driver) at a low cost. It works splendidly, its posses almost all the
characteristics of the original Arduino motor shield. It's almost
considered as a clone. The original Arduino motor shield has the same
motor driver chip (L298), the only difference with it, is the package
type, my project contains the vertical version of the chip L298 (with a
"N").
Structure:
It's controlled
using 4 PWM pins. The connections are: 11&10 for the R-Motor and
6&5 for the L-Motor. With the help of eight fast recovery diodes
(1N4937) it shows a very fast response of stopping/ braking, that's why
I'm going to use it for the national SUMOBOT competition.
What Is A Motor Shield?
A motor shield is a circuit that drives different loads such as motors,
lights and etc... The Arduino Board (Microcontroller) itself
isn't designed to operate high current loads, that's why we use motor
shields, it is a circuit that is controlled by your arduino board to
drive high power accessories.
