Preparing the motor driver circuit
The motor driver circuit comes as a kit, and it requires some soldering (shown in the figure here).
Adafruit DC and Stepper Motor HAT for Raspberry Pi-Mini Kit (picture source: adafruit.com)
- The first step in the assembly process is to solder the
40 pin header. Stack the header on top of your Raspberry Pi Zero and as shown in the picture here:
Stack the header on top of the Raspberry Pi Zero
- Position the motor driver (as shown in the picture here) on top of the header. Hold on to the motor driver board so that the board is not tilted while soldering.
Stack the motor HAT on top of the Raspberry Pi Zero
- Solder the corner pins of the motor driver first and proceed to solder the other pins.
Note the motor driver board soldered such that the board is parallel to the Raspberry Pi Zero
- Now, solder the 3.5 mm terminals (see the blue colored ones in the picture) by flipping the board
Solder the 3.5 mm terminals
- The motor driver board is ready to use!
The motor driver is ready...
