Adafruit 2927 DC Motor + Stepper FeatherWing Add-on For All Feathe...

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Adafruit Feather Wing Add-ons For All Feather Boards
- Adafruit 2927, The Adafruit DC Motor + Stepper Feather Wing Add-ons will let you use 2 x bi-polar stepper motors or 4 x brushed DC motors (or 1 stepper & 2 DC motors). That's enough for a cool 4-wheel drive robot or the X & Y axis for a 3D printer. Adafruit have taken their popular Motor Shield & made it smaller, lighter & with a useful upgrade. These motor drivers use a dedicated PWM chip to take the load off your Feather main board. Each board has 4 x H-bridges that can source 1.2A per bridge & are protected by thermal shutdown. These let you drive 4 x bi-directional DC motors with 12-bit speed selection or 2 x stepper motors, unipolar or bipolar with single coil, double coil, interleaved or micro-stepping. For safety, the motors are disabled at power up. The power inputs are protected against reverse polarity & the power in & motor drive outputs have good solid 3.5mm terminal blocks so you can connect 1.5 to 2.3mm OD wire. With 5 x I2C address selection jumper pads you could stack 32 of these boards for a total 64 x steppers or 128 x DC motors. That's enough for 16 x 3D printers or one 63D printer, either way you're going to need a considerable power supply. Adafruit have a free tutorial & software library for the bigger but similar Motor Shield which will get you off to a racing start. Take a look at our stepper motors & DC motors but remember you are looking for ones that need 1.2A or less per coil & can run at 4.5 to 13.5V DC. We also carry a wide range of power supplies. Adafruit 2927 DC Motor + Stepper Feather Wing Add-on For All Feather Boards