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Step 5Construct the Motor Shield
The Motor Shield is an addon circuit board that enables the Arduino to control various motors, or Servos in this case.
The Shield comes as a kit from Adafruit.com, which has the building instructions along with software libraries that you will need to program and control the Servos.
Following the instructions on the site, solder the Motor Shield together and attach it to the Arduino via the header pins.
The Shield comes as a kit from Adafruit.com, which has the building instructions along with software libraries that you will need to program and control the Servos.
Following the instructions on the site, solder the Motor Shield together and attach it to the Arduino via the header pins.
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Jul 5, 2010. 12:45 PM
laxap
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laxap
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AFAIK, RC servos can be connected to the Arduino shield, directly: powered by VCC, and commanded by a PWM output. So my question is: why do you need the motor shield? Very cool project. I just love the BTTF trilogy!
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Jul 5, 2010. 1:03 PMblakebevin (author)
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I was originally gong to use DC motors, but it didn't work to well, so I switched to Servos. Figured I bought they motor shield and might as well use it ;)
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