Arduino L293D Motor Control Shield

If you are planning on assembling your new robot, you will eventually want to learn about controlling variety of motors like DC motors, Stepper motors & servos. One of the easiest and inexpensive way to do that is to interface L293D Motor Driver Shield with Arduino. It’s a full-featured motor shield perfect for many robots and CNC projects. Our L293D arduino shield can drive:

• 4 bi-directional DC motors with 8-bit speed selection(0-255)
• 2 stepper motors (unipolar or bipolar) with single coil, double coil, interleaved or micro-stepping
• 2 servo motors

The L293D is a dual-channel H-Bridge motor driver capable of driving a pair of DC motors or single stepper motor. As the shield comes with two L293D motor driver chipsets, it can individually drive up to four DC motors making it ideal for building four-wheel robot platforms where each H-bridge can deliver up to a maximum of 0.6A to the motor. The shield also comes with a 74HC595 shift register that extends 4 digital pins of the Arduino to the 8 direction control pins of two L293D chips.

Features

• 4 H-Bridges: L293D chipset provides 0.6A per bridge (1.2A peak) with thermal shutdown protection, internal kickback protection diodes. Can run motors on 4.5VDC to 25VDC
• 2 connections for 5V hobby servos connected to the Arduino’s high-resolution dedicated timer
• Up to 4 bi-directional DC motors with individual 8-bit speed selection
• Up to 2 stepper motors (unipolar or bipolar) with single coil, double coil or interleaved stepping
• Pull-down resistors keep motors disabled during power-up
• Big terminal block connectors to easily hook up wires and power
• Arduino reset button brought up top for easy access
• 2-pin terminal block and jumper to connect external power, for separate logic/motor supplies
• Compatible with Arduino Uno, Mega 1280 & 2560, Diecimila and Duemilanove

Specifications

• 4 H-Bridges: L293D chipset provides 0.6A per bridge
• Can run motors on 4.5VDC to 25VDC
• Pull down resistors keep motors disabled during power-up
• Compatible with Uno, Mega and Diecimila arduino boards
• Logic Voltage : 4.5-5.5v
• Motor Voltage : 4.5v - 25v Motors
• Terminal blocks compatible with multiple wire sizes

Shipping List

• Arduino L293D Motor Control Shield x 1

Good to Know

• Power for the motors can be supplied from Arduino boards DC Jack (normally 9V) or from the 2-pin terminal block on the shield. If you are supplying power from the shield's terminal block you should remove the PWR jumper or you could damage the shield and the Arduino board