Manufacturer

Adafruit Industries, USA.

Hackability Level

high, the perfect hackable device, you can do what you want with it

Here is a design for a full-featured motor shield that will be able to power many simple to medium-complexity projects.

• 2 connections for 5V 'hobby' servos connected to the Arduino's high-resolution dedicated timer - no jitter!
• 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 36VDC.
• Up to 4 bi-directional DC motors with individual 8-bit speed selection (so, about 0.5% resolution)
• 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 (10-22AWG) and power
• Arduino reset button brought up top
• 2-pin terminal block and jumper to connect external power, for seperate logic/motor supplies
• Tested compatible with Arduino Mega, Diecimila & Duemilanove
• Download the easy-to-use Arduino software library, check out the examples and you're ready to go!

Included in this pack is:

• Motor shield for Arduino
• 6 volt DC hobby motor
• Small stepper motor
• Standard size servo
• Micro size servo

An Arduino is not included, and you'll need one to use the shield. The shield does take a little assembly but its fairly easy.