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Adafruit DC & Stepper Motor HAT for Raspberry Pi - Mini Kit

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Product Dimensions 3"L x 2"W x 1"H

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  • 4 H-Bridges: TB6612 chipset provides 1.2A per bridge with thermal shutdown protection, internal kickback protection diodes.
  • Up to 4 bi-directional DC motors with individual 8-bit speed selection (so, about 0.5% resolution)
  • Up to 2 stepper motors (unipolar or bipolar) with single coil, double coil, interleaved or micro-stepping.
  • Big terminal block connectors to easily hook up wires (18-26AWG) and power
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Product Description

Let your robotic dreams come true with the new DC+Stepper Motor HAT from Adafruit. This Raspberry Pi add-on is perfect for any motion project as it can drive up to 4 DC or 2 Stepper motors with full PWM speed control.

Since the Raspberry Pi does not have a lot of PWM pins, we use a fully-dedicated PWM driver chip onboard to both control motor direction and speed. This chip handles all the motor and speed controls over I2C. Only two pins (SDA & SCL) are required to drive the multiple motors, and since it's I2C you can also connect any other I2C devices or HATs to the same pins.

In fact, you can even stack multiple Motor HATs, up to 32 of them, for controlling up to 64 stepper motors or 128 DC motors (or a mix of the two) - just remember to purchase and solder in a stacking header instead of the one we include.

Motors are controlled by TB6612 MOSFET drivers with 1.2A per channel current capability (you can draw up to 3A peak for approx 20ms at a time), a big improvement over L293D drivers and there are built-in flyback diodes as well.

We even had a little space so we added a polarity protection FET on the power pins and a bit of prototyping area. And the HAT is assembled and tested here at Adafruit so all you have to do is solder on the included 2x20 plain header and the terminal blocks.

Install the easy-to-use Python library, check out the examples and you're ready to go!

Comes with an assembled & tested HAT, terminal blocks, and 2x20 plain header. Some soldering is required to assemble the headers on

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4.1 out of 5 stars
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92 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the performance, ease of use, and quality of the computer component. For example, they mention it works great, the software library is easy to follow, and the board is easy assemble. Customers are also impresseded with the learning section of the Adafruit website, saying it's fun to experiment with. That said, some complain about the durability, saying the product is very fragile and can't handle any serious load.

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13 customers mention13 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the performance of the product. They mention that it works great, it works as described, and it works perfectly with the Adafruit library. Some say that the product is great for relatively static applications and that the provided code works well. Overall, most are happy with their purchase and recommend it to others.

"...Works great. Fits on a Raspberry PI 3 and 4 with no issues. I have used it to drive separate motors with no issues...." Read more

"Works well. Using it to drive two DC motors. The speed control on this board with the provided software is excellent...." Read more

"...It works fine for a relatively static application with everything exposed, but would be terrible to use if you're mounting it in a confined space..." Read more

"...The controller works as described and the software library from Adafruit does the job just fine in Python...." Read more

11 customers mention11 positive0 negative

Customers find the instructions on the Adafruit website very easy to follow. They say the setup was fairly easy, with lots of code examples online. They also say the Python library is easy to use and the control is simple. Customers say it's a great tool for learning how to program, and easy to power up to 4 independent DC motors. They mention that the provided software is excellent.

"...Setup was fairly easy, be forwarned that you'll need a soldering iron and some solder...." Read more

"...commands in python super easy, which has been a great tool for learning how to program...." Read more

"Easy to wire up lots of code examples online. If you know how to program a pi then you will be driving stepper motors as soon as you unpack this...." Read more

"...The board is extremely flexible, and makes it easy to power up to 4 independent DC motors or two steppers (or a stepper and 2 DC's, etc)...." Read more

8 customers mention8 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the quality of the computer component. They mention that it is a well built product with solid state parts. However, some customers report issues with the terminals and GPIO connector not being soldered.

"...All in all though it's a good well built product. All solid state parts (no relays)...." Read more

"Nice board, but none of the terminals or GPIO connector are soldered down." Read more

"...2. Nice quality board / components and easy to assemble.Cons:1...." Read more

"I was able to get this this board soldered up very quickly and it looks solid enough...." Read more

4 customers mention4 positive0 negative

Customers find the learn section of Adafruit pretty nice for getting started and the supplied code works. They also say the product is easy to use and fun to experiment with, and comes with a great code library.

"...Overall its a great addition to the Pi and fun to experiment with." Read more

"It's a great product and comes with a great code library available on adafruit however it is definetly only for small current loads because the..." Read more

"...The learn section of Adafruit is pretty nice for getting started and the supplied code works for a simple example for different stepping options...." Read more

"easy to use, excelente for learning" Read more

4 customers mention0 positive4 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the durability of the computer component. They mention that it is very fragile, arrived broken, and cannot handle any serious load.

"Cannot handle any serious load burned three of them" Read more

"...12 V motors and this thing lasted a total of 10 seconds before every bridge was fried." Read more

"Arrived Broken and Stepped On" Read more

"Good product but very fragile..." Read more

4 customers mention0 positive4 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the missing parts in the computer component. They mention that it didn't include any spacers, 2x3-pin terminal headers, and extenders.

"...the board is that it takes up all 40 of the GPIO slots and doesn't offer an extenders...." Read more

"...reason I knocked of two stars was because it was missing one of the two pin terminal blocks..." Read more

"Item works fine, but unfortunately didn't include any spacers - so you'll need to figure out where to source them from separately...." Read more

"When I received this product, it was missing the 2x3-pin terminal headers, so I am not able to use stepper motors with this kit." Read more

3 customers mention0 positive3 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the ability of the computer component to limit current. They mention that it needs current limiting or to be rated for less. Some say that the product is definitely only for small current loads.

"...For one thing, it has no current-limiting capability -- which is fine, it never claimed to...." Read more

"...great code library available on adafruit however it is definetly only for small current loads because the reason I ordered another one was...." Read more

"...Burnt up two of them. I give up. It needs current limiting on it or to be rated for less." Read more

3 customers mention0 positive3 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the power of the computer component. They mention that it is not suitable for high current applications and that the python library is terrible.

"This product is not for high current applications...." Read more

"...This made it unusable in my project." Read more

"The HAT itself is pretty cool. The python library is TERRIBLE I had to edit every single file before it would work." Read more

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Works great
I used the motor hat to drive an automated time-lapse track using a Raspberry Pi and gphoto2, programmed with Python. The motor hat drove three DC motors slowly in very small increments, providing smooth time-lapse motion.
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