Arduino Servo Motor Control with Motor Driver Shield L293D

Hobby servos are the easiest way to get going with motor control. They have a 3-pin 0.1" female header connection with +5V, ground and signal inputs. The motor shield simply brings out the PWM output lines from Arduino pins 9 and 10 to two 3-pin headers so that its easy to plug in and go. They can take a lot of power so a 9V battery wont last more than a few minutes! The nice thing about using the onboard PWM is that its very precise and goes about its business in the background. You can use the built in Servo library.

Required Hardware:
Arduino Board :
Motor Shield L293D :
Servo Motor :

Recommended Items:

Download AFMotor Library (GitHub)

To install, click on Downloads in the middle of the page, select Download as zip and uncompress the folder.
Rename the folder to AFmotor (check that the renamed folder contains the .cpp and .h files) and install into the Arduinosketches/libraries folder.

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[ninjahunter]

Nice work, especially that part u show which wires were inserted in the board

[Locomotive]

Thanks for everything, it's still good :-)

[DamianekMAl]

What is that virtual softener that you use to demo connection

[CarlinComm]

Thanks for the reminder, I need to dig out the kits to see what parts I have, I am pretty sure I have a motor shield like that :)

[gaewing]

I am looking at a milling machine and am curious about the ClearPath SD family of motors with the Arduino Mega and Fusion 360. Most of the postings I seem to see are using the SC ClearPath motors. any advice? I am looking at motors in the 700 oz-in. size

[weirdolabdr]

please make a video on controlling two dc motors with adafruit motor shield.

[kato]

Hey, I need a hand with a personal project. I wanna use the AFMotor and Servo libraries but also want to use the IRremote library with it too. But for whatever reason, the output for the IR remote is random when both libraries are active, but the Outputs are correct when I remove one of the motor libraries.

[AlessandroBoggiano]

If I would use two servos and I give power to Arduino with the USB, can I use a battery pack to power the servos ?

[harry._fr]

Thanks your video is great but where can I put a power supply on the L293D Kindly

[mariaeduardacamargo]

what's the name of this simulator ?

[jhintastic]

Where did you get that fritzing part??

[unglaubichuberlieber]

you mentioned l293, so can one replace this with a l298n and connect that servo to it ???,
why am i asking...i am a cheap guy and i have a few l298n laying around ...thanks for your reply

[mohammedhussein]

I've the adafruit servo shield for arduino however I dont know how to develop the code for it to turn to a specific angle

[RidzLiving]

might be a dumb question, why do we write servo.attach(10) like how do we know that is the 10th pin?

[calinmorar]

How can I put female headers on the shield, because I can't control anything else if I use it... :(

[elkroze]

one question, this app with the simulation, how is the name?
please, you can help me?

[ArcanePath]

How does it only use pins 9 and 10 when you can control 4 DC motors?

[saisokuhashiriya]

I'm wondering, how to move them from 90 to 180 degrees and then it turn back to 90 degree with one push of a button.. same goes to 90 to 0 degree, and getting back on 90 degree.. so it will always be on 90 degree..each time the button hit, they goes to one direction and get back to original position..

[danysfahmi]

Can we put pin servo to motor shield pin? Not on servo place, but on pin 1 - 9 motor shield. I want use 4 servos for my project and use this component.

Pls answerr someone who knows

[haipingwang]

Thanks for uploading, my questions is about the arduino code name_servo.attach(10), physically pin10 is not connected. Does it mean attach 10 to pwm pin internally? Thanks.