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This circuit uses the DRV8833 and allows up to 2 DC motors or 1 stepper motor to be controlled by a microprocessor. This is useful as a microcontroller cannot, on its own, output enough power to drive most motors. Using this board you can control a motor with digital outputs (two per motor) from your microcontroller while powering it separately from a suitable power source. The motor driver operates off a wide power supply (2.7-10.8V) and can provide up to 1.5A per output or 3A if the motor is connected to both outputs in parallel. Depending upon the state of the two control lines, the motor can be controlled to coast, reverse, go forward & brake.

The board can easily be connected to a microcontroller and will operate at 3V or 5V. Please note, when used with a stepper motor, half-stepping is supported – but not micro-stepping.

Features:

  • Drives two motors or one stepper motor.
  • 1.5A per channel.
  • When used with a stepper motor, half-stepping is supported – but not micro-stepping.

Contents:

  • 1 x Motor/Stepper Driver Breakout Board.

Possible applications include:

  • Robotics.

Dimensions:

  • Length: 38mm.
  • Width: 28mm.
  • Height: 3mm.

Connections:

  • Vcc: Supply Voltage (0-10.8V)
  • GND: Ground
  • nSLEEP: Sleep mode pin (Bringing this low enters the device into sleep mode)
  • xINx: Control, logic inputs (AIN1, AIN2, BIN1, BIN2)
  • xOUTx: Motor outputs (AOUT1, AOUT2, BOUT1, BOUT2)

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2 reviews for Kitronik Motor / Stepper Motor Drive Board

  1. Alan Pickard

    Works perfectly with dc motors. Accompanying Arduino program very convenient. Small size, but does the job.

  2. Alan Pickard

    Works perfectly with dc motors. Accompanying Arduino program very convenient. Small size, but does the job.

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Questions and answers

    Can motor driver board also be powered with usb. Now my motor is not turning if I connect microbit and usb cable direct to microbit. So how to power, if you do not want battery pack?
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    Q Can motor driver board also be powered with usb. Now my motor is not turning if I connect microbi...... Read more
    Asked by Anonymous on September 3, 2018 12:00 am
    Answered by the admin Hi there,

    Yes that is correct you would not be able to power a motor through the battery cage on the micro:bit. If you provide power to the terminals of the motor driver board this will supply the motors and step down the voltage for the micro:bit as well.

    With using a USB cable that would be theoretically possible you would need to strip the outer wire and put the positive and negative wires into the terminal blocks as normal.

    However, I would be exceedingly careful with using a USB as the maximum these can supply a maximum of 500mA. If you draw more you could damage the PC you have this connected to. Bearing in mind that the micro:bit will automatically draw 120-200mA from the power source I would not connect anything more than a 250mA motor to the board while you have a USB as the power source.

    Best

    Cullen

    Best Regards

    Cullen
  2. I want to use this with the BBC Microbit but I can only find Ardinio documentation for how to control it. do you have any references for using this with the Microbit?
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    Q I want to use this with the BBC Microbit but I can only find Ardinio documentation for how to con...... Read more
    Asked by Anonymous on July 24, 2017 12:00 am
    Answered by the admin Hi Christian, Unfortunately we don't have any documentation for using a micro:bit with this board. However you should be able to keep the set up similar to how it is with Arduino and drop the micro:bit in its place with an edge connector to break the pins out further. As an example you could use pins 12 & 8 for one of the input pairs and pins 16 & 0 for the second input pair.
  4. Hi, i was wondering if this motor Drive Board would work with the BBC Micro:bit,Thanks
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    Q Hi, i was wondering if this motor Drive Board would work with the BBC Micro:bit,Thanks
    Asked by Anonymous on March 30, 2016 12:00 am
    Answered by the admin Yes you can use this along with the BBC micro:bit to drive motors. You would still need to use the edge connector breakout board to allow you to use the correct pins. 5601-edge-connector-breakout-board
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