Can anyone tell me if l293d will work with mbed. the minimum voltage for logic is listed at 4.5v so I guess my question is redundant. But I'm wondering if anyone has used it somehow or can recommend a chip that is suitable for use.

I do have the pololu micro serial dual motor controller which can be controlled with serial or I2C but I am very new to c++ and I think will find it hard going to write an implementation for this.

L293D have logic 0 of up to 1.5V and therefore 3.3V is in the range of logic 1.

L298's also work, and take more current. look in the motor page on the cookbook, http://mbed.org/cookbook/Motor

Hi,

I used both, L293D and L298, both work fine with the mbed. If you use the L293D, only use low current motors or else the h-bridge gets verry hot and shuts down.

Thanks for your answers. Yes the motors I have are the small pololu gear motors. I have already used them with a pic controller and L293D.