Quite often you’ll need a full-featured motor shield for your Arduino based mechatronics projects as such a compact shield can control a number of everyday dc motors, servo motors, and stepper motors. Besides such devoted dc motor shields will help you to drive certain solenoids and electromechanical actuators. Perfect for most mechatronics projects!

The motor driver shield comes with two L293D dual-channel H-Bridge motor ICs, so it can individually drive up to four dc motors. The shield offers a total of four H-Bridges and each H-bridge can deliver up to 600mA drive current to the dc motor. The next key component of the motor shield is the 74HC595 shift register IC that extends 4 digital pins of the Arduino to the 8 direction control pins of the L293D ICs. This is the official (Adafruit) schematic drawing of the motor shield.

Specifications:

• Logic Input voltage: 4.5 V ~ 7 V
• Current Input: 13-26 mA
• Output Current per driver: 600 mA
• Pulsed Current per driver: 1.2 A
• Output Voltage: 4.5V to 36 V
• Size: 69 x 53 mm