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Driving a DC motor with an Arduino and the L293D motor driver

Austin Spivey on June 07, 2018

In this tutorial, we'll be looking at how to power and drive a DC motor with an L293D and an Arduino (we're using the Arduino MKR 1000 here, but y...
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Peter Kim Frank

Hey Austin, thanks for sharing, this is pretty neat.

Can you provide any fun examples of real-world projects that could utilize this setup and motor? Would love to stoke some inspiration for a future weekend project.

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Austin Spivey • Edited

Yes! We used this to create a facial recognition Ferris wheel that would begin turning when you smiled at it and would stop when you frowned, but the possibilities are endless. The full tutorial is to come, and ill be sure to add in some other ideas we have for this!