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L293D - Motor Driver Walkthrough

guibot — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:56:00 -0400

In this walkthrough I will show one simple way to use L293D H-Bridge, and build a basic Motor Driver for Arduino. I only tried this with Arduino Diecimila and it works well.

There may be other ways to do this, but since this works for me and feeds my needs, I assume this might be useful for more people.

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MD23 - Dual 12Volt 3Amp H Bridge Motor Drive

Nicola — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:44:11 -0400

Althou i just burned one, i think i could still share some info here :)

This is an advanced motor driver for 12V motors. It is usually coupled with EMG30 motors, but you can run it with any other 12V motor. It handles up to 3A per motor.

Arduino: How to make your first robot with..

fritsl — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:25:10 -0400

When writing this, LMR only offers "Start here" - instructions on how to make your first robot, using Picaxe.

"Nebster" wrote to me, and asked if I could do a parallel, using Arduino, and I think that is actually a very good idea (now that Picaxe refuses to pay me commission, haha)

Focus should be on making first timers get a robot up and running at a low cost, and most importantly learn how to hook up motors, a servo, and a analogue input in "no time".

L298 Compact Motor Driver Kit

fritsl — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:18:56 -0400

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..

Help with motor driver?

Brennon — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:26:09 -0400

Hi,

As many of you know, my experiences building robots have been painful at best. So, I'm taking a step back, and I will follow Frits's wonderful tutorial.

Because I live in America, I'd prefer to buy my parts from a U.S.-based site to avoid longer shipping time,additional fees, etc.

I've run into a problem: Frits's tutorial calls for 1 L293D Motor driver. At mouser.com I found a short list of products similar to what I need.

Which will work?:

Relays (DPDT)

fritsl — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:56:36 -0400

Relays are an alternative to motor-controllers.

They do consume a little power from your battery when in either on or off position (turned on) - but they also do deliver the full power that you want - where a motor-controller often takes some of the power (voltage-drop).

They can be found to be able to handle much more current than a motor controller matched in size (and price).

Motor driver

Drixx — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:44:58 -0400

Well.. Ever since I found this page (through ing.dk) I've been dying to build my first robot.

I have bough all the parts I need, and i've been trying to modify an RC toy car, but i have blown up the motor driver in it :D. I tried with the 293D, but it couldn't take the current. So right now i'm just stuck...

The Picaxe Support Chips - What are they for?

psy — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:38:19 -0400

There are various different chips which are commonly used with the Picaxe chip. Here I attempt to explain what each one does, where it goes and why you might care.

Most of this has already been mentioned, but I thought I would collect the information together here and add a little more detail where I can. I apologise in advance for the wikipedia scholarship that follows, so please let me know what I got wrong and I'll try and update this page to match.

My pololu controller came !!!

mattmitch — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:34:54 -0400

Sweetness my pololu controller came,(Dang that thing is small :)

I just finnished my SAT test (I am home schooled so that means no more school untill september!! :),

and I just got a summer job, this week is so awesome !!!!! :P

so here comes the hard part, coding :)

~Matt

Driving a motor with arduino...

mattmitch — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:53:14 -0400

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! :)