I need some help with driving dc motors with arduino. I have already looked at the arduino site and all I found was this http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoShields and no guide or parts list.
I have gone thru all of the lessons here http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/ and ithas been really fun so far but I WANT TO BUILD ROBOTS! NOT BLINKIE LIGHTS! :)
This chip enables you to take 4 outputs and turn them into 2 that can be reversed.
Note that the chip can get quite warm, but it is designed for … Read more
Today I tested that the motor driver circuit of PICAXE Pete does in fact work. I'm now in the process of writing some code for line following using my standard technique: find out where the line is by taking the mean value of a histogram of the sensor values and using this to calculate a regulation term for each of the two motors.
