Adafruit Motor/Stepper/Servo Shield for Arduino v2.3 Kit

I've used about half a dozen of these so far. They're the best Arduino motor shield for the money out there. Their use of i2c for DC/stepper motor control leaves all Arduino pins open for use by other devices. The two servo ports are very handy. I've thrown various voltages at the thing, never had any problems. The extra solder hole spots are great for adding things like i2c oled display, piezo buzzer, and other small things. I have used these with Arduino UNO, Nano, Wemos D1 R2, and Wemos D1 R2 mini. It takes a little bit of extra thinking and soldering to make them work with Wemos D1/mini (have to modify for 3.3v instead of 5v), but the end result is wifi control of its motors. Very convenient.

The 5 stars may be premature but so far this shield has really impressed me. My goal was to control multiple DC motors and this does that beautifully and easily. To start with there is plenty of documentation for this. I found a 51 page article to read while I was waiting for it to arrive and then there is the download that contains the library and more. The library responded to the "add zip library" prompt so it was just a matter of minutes before I was able to control my first motor with it by using their example sketch. From there it was a simple matter to have four motors hooked up and controlled.My first bit of advice is to order the stacking header pins the same time as you order the shield even if you don't think you'll ever stack shields. The reason being is that you are going to have to solder header pins anyway and if you use the stacking pins it gives you easy access to every Arduino pin without further soldering. The shield and the Arduino will control 4 motors without any additional wiring but if you need to add any sensors, LEDs, or whatever you might want you'll need access to the Arduino.My goal is to make a radio controlled 4 wheel drive crawler as soon as I can find the hardware that will interface with the Arduino. I've already done one with IR control but that has very limited range and not that good outdoors. (The sun is also an IR transmitter).Any help on the RC equipment would be appreciated.

The Adafruit Motor Shield v2 lives up to the expectation of high quality products and fantastic support I've come to expect from Adafruit. It works just as advertised and there's a boat load of resources to help you out if you get stuck. It was only a few minutes from unpacking to testing my motors using the shield. The only thing I could say about it that isn't a glowing adjective is when stacked on an Arduino Uno R3 and running DC motors + servos, all the hookups for power and motors can get a little....messy. aside from that I can't think of anything negative to say about it.

This motor shield works perfectly on my Arduino. You know only complaint I have is that the header pins did not come installed. They were included, but not installed. I had to solder them on and I suck at soldering the Seller should’ve made that more clear.

I love this board. It's very versatile. the motors can draw from the Arduino, or an external power source. It conveniently breaks out 2 pins to drive servos. Just plug in the servo because the break-out has 5v, grnd, and the arduno pin. And the built-in prototype board is very handy. each Arduino pin is extended to a solder joint so you don't have to do any funky soldering to the pin itself.In general ... you can't go wrong getting Adafruit products!

I try to let this shield to work with a stepper motor and dint work,servo motor work fine, could get to work with dc motors.product quality is very good , i need to do more test for the dc motor and stepper motor.

I ended up buying the Arduino shield after I found out this shield does not have current sensing output so there is no easy way to get feedback from DC motors. Adafruit does have separate current sensors you can buy, and I did buy a couple, but according to a post by Adafruit you cannot use them to tell individually how much current is going through each motor, but only the total current going to all of them. Anyway why bother with extra parts and complexity if the Arduino board does it all.I really hope the next version of this board does include current sensing output, because I really like Adafruit products and use them all the time.

Versatile and easy to use with an Arduino. I've bought literally dozens of these from Adafruit over the years for use in robots and other creations. Not much difference between the 2.0 and this 2.3 version, but I don't often stack them.