L298 Compact Motor Driver Kit
Vendor's Description:
This is a motor driver that I like because of this:
- It is usable from 6 to 50V, at up to 4A total output current
- It has a 5V output, so you can just hook up any battery (above 6V), and then hook your Microcontroller up to this motor controller
- It has LED's to indicate that the motors (should be) going
it is controlled by setting pins high and low, and that is..
- Bad because it takes up 4 output pins
- Good because the beginner does not have to worry about serial or i2C or whatever that can be frustrating
I often find that I have lots of spare digital input ports on the Picaxe that I tend to use.. and these can be used as output for this, so in fact it feels like it uses "no pins at all":
The input pins can be used as output, but not to transfer serial or i2C, so for me this sollution often uses a pin less than other motor controllers.
@ Sat, 2009-02-21 20:10
looks good
@ Sat, 2009-02-21 20:59
I think the manual explains
@ Thu, 2008-09-11 20:27
good
I use to this circuit. This is my design :)
@ Tue, 2008-09-09 21:57
sweet
@ Tue, 2008-09-09 09:05
How do you use an input pin as an output?
How do you use a Picaxe digital input as an output?
@ Tue, 2008-09-09 20:11
high portc 2That will make
high portc 2
That will make the digital input 2 .. low as a matter of fact - if you use the standard picaxe 28 board
low portc 2
- will make it high!
It is something to do with sinking or whatever, I never figured it out, and aparently I am the only one in the world who experiences this :)
But the keyword is "portc"
@ Sun, 2009-02-22 00:50
Another keyword is dirsc.
@ Mon, 2008-09-08 23:03
Input Pin as Output Pin?
@ Tue, 2008-09-09 05:52
How do who do what?
@ Mon, 2008-09-08 21:02
If I have seen this two