
It is also less expensive than a shield version. Stand-alone Motor Driver board (Available HERE) This includes a heat sink for the L298N chip, allowing higher currents. Details of operation of the L298N Arduino Motor Driver Shield are NOTE: This "shield" version is now hard to find. Motor Driver Shield Here's an example of an Arduino "Shield" that plugs on top of an Arduino.This uses a motor driver chip L298N which we will detail more about later.

More about it on ĭown below is information on a standalone (Not a plug-on Shield). The following two boards use the L298N Chip. (Examples Here:) Boards like this cost about $10 to $15 these days. If you are new to this subject, you may want to look at these two basic tutorials on DC motors that Mike Cook has contributed:Īnd also StepperMotors this Stepper Motor information:Ī Motor Driver will usually be a circuit board with several electronics components on it, including a high-power motor driver chip or some power transistors.


Here we will give examples of ways that Arduino can control different types of motors of different sizes. But the low-power signals from Arduino need to control high-power circuits to run the actual motors. 3.2 Stand-alone Motor Driver board (Available HERE)Īrduino can drive many kinds of motors.
