Arduino Motor Shield V3

The Arduino Motor Shield is based on the L298, which is a dual full-bridge driver designed to drive inductive loads such as relays, solenoids, DC and stepping motors.

Hello World

Import programMUTTv1

First (and very, very simple) controller program for the MUTT. See http://mbed.org/users/johnb/notebook/mutt-mbed-enabled-robot-vehicle/

Library

Import libraryArduinoMotorShield

Thin wrapper around the pins used to control the Arduino motor shield

Datasheet

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoMotorShieldR3

Notes

The Motor Shield requires PWM output on at least 2 pins in order to control the bridges.

Unfortunately not all mbed boards support hardware driven PWM on these pins meaning that some cross-connection may be required. Some suggestions are provided below:

KL46Z:

Connect pins 5 (PTA5) and 11 (PTD6) to allow pin 5 to control PWM B.


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