Motor Driver

Motor drivers are needed because voltage and current provided by a microcontroller pin is not high enough to drive a motor. Motor drivers are integrated circuits which need extra circuits to work properly. Motor driver boards consist of the circuits needed for the IC to work properly and possibly some extras like regulator circuits etc.

Motor driver boards are designed same as motor driver shields, but their pinouts don’t have to be suitable for any microcontroller platform. For that reason they can be used with any microcontroller or without a microcontroller. There is not a general pinout pattern for these boards.

Hide this content.