Can I use a ThunderBorg is a dual motor controller on an Arduino UNO R3

Question

I am new to Arduino and Electronics and am thinking of making a 6 wheel drive all terrain platform similar to the MonsterBorg pi, but I want to use an Arduino instead of a Raspberry pi to control the motors. The motors I intend to use need to be powerfull. Any advice on what would be shield or motor controllers I should use would be a great help.

• Jot: First select the motors and the batteries. Find the stall current of the motors. Then find a motor driver (or motor controller) that can handle the voltage and the stall current. The motor driver can be more expensive than the motors. Pololu has many motor drivers. A common mistake is that someone buys big motors and a tiny motor driver, for example motors with 60A stall current and a motor driver of 0.6A.
• Regus Pitts: Hello Jot, Many thanks for this it has been very useful information.

Answer 1

Hello,
You have many possibility for drive one or more motor.

• Transistor(1 motor)
• L293D(2 motor backward and forward or 4 motor just forward)
• L298D (like L293D but he support more Amp and Vol
• L293D Adafruit shield(4 motor)
• ...

Here is an example for

L293D:
enable PWM(0-255), inputs digital(0-1).
Motor1 : Input1, Input2, Enable1,2
Motor2 : Input3, Input4, Enable3,4

void motor1RotationDirection(int input1arg, int input2arg){
 digitaleWrite(input1, input1arg);// LOW | HIGH
 digitaleWrite(input2, input2arg);// HIGH | LOW
 //Forward|Backward
}
void motor1speedRotation(int speed){
 analogWrite(enableMotor1, speed);
} //for motor2 is the same.

• 2CoB9: I have already use l293D for project.
• Regus Pitts: Many thanks for the prompt reply and the resource list. I think these will be of a great help.