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Mastering Arduino

You're reading from   Mastering Arduino A project-based approach to electronics, circuits, and programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830584
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jon Hoffman Jon Hoffman
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface The Arduino FREE CHAPTER Basic Electronics Circuit Diagrams Basic Prototyping Arduino IDE Programming the Arduino - The Basics Programming the Arduino - Beyond the Basics Motion Sensor Environment Sensors Obstacle Avoidance and Collision Detection Fun with Lights Fun with Sound Using LCD Displays Speech Recognition and Voice Synthesizing DC Motors and Motor Controllers Servo Motors Using a Relay Remotely Controlling the Arduino Creating a Robot Bluetooth LE Bluetooth Classic Another Book You May Enjoy

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The code to control the motors only needs to use the standard digitalWrite() and analogWrite() functions from the Arduino standard library, so no external libraries are needed for this code. Therefore, our code will start off by defining the pins on the Arduino that are connected to the motor controllers. This following code does this:

#define MC_IN_1 3
#define MC_IN_2 2
#define MC_ENABLE 10

Now we will need to configure the pins for output in the setup() function as shown in the following code:

void setup() {
  pinMode(MC_ENABLE, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(MC_IN_1, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(MC_IN_2, OUTPUT);
}

Now we are ready to power the motors. Let's put the following code into the loop() function:

void loop() {
  digitalWrite(MC_IN_1, HIGH);
  digitalWrite(MC_IN_2, LOW);
  analogWrite(MC_ENABLE, 250);
  delay(2000);
  analogWrite(MC_ENABLE, 0);
  delay(1000);
  digitalWrite(MC_IN_1...
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