Control 2 motors with arduino motor shield

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Hey guys I have a arduino motor shield from adafruit and I want a code for it so that i can control two motors from it. So please could you post a code for it. Also could you tell me that can I connect 2 servos and 2 motors on the shield at one time without having any problem.

Thanks for your help.

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Motor Control

  Simply read all the pages on the Use It for the shield on the Adafruit website.

 

http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/use.html

 

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Thanks for your help Gray

However the site does not tell that how can i control ‘2’ motors simultaneously. So I would like to have a code for controlling 2 motors simultaneously - First both ahead, then one forward and one behind, then both the other way and at last both backward.

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The Adafruit Mshield

I’m not sure what you mean by simultaneously, all code is executed inline, one instruction at a time. It does it so fast though, you might think that the commands are simultaneous.

Here is some function code for 4 motors I use in some of my robots.

AF_DCMotor motor1(1, MOTOR12_64KHZ); // create motor #1, 64KHz pwm
AF_DCMotor motor2(2, MOTOR12_64KHZ); // motor #2
AF_DCMotor motor3(3, MOTOR12_64KHZ); // motor #3
AF_DCMotor motor4(4, MOTOR12_64KHZ); // motor #4

void go() {
  Serial.println(“All motors ahead - fast”);  
  motor1.run(FORWARD);
  motor2.run(FORWARD);
  motor3.run(FORWARD);
  motor4.run(FORWARD);  
  motor1.setSpeed(255);
  motor2.setSpeed(255);
  motor3.setSpeed(255);
  motor4.setSpeed(255);
}

void backup() {
  Serial.println(“All motors backward - fast”);
  motor1.run(BACKWARD);
  motor2.run(BACKWARD);
  motor3.run(BACKWARD);
  motor4.run(BACKWARD);
  motor1.setSpeed(255);
  motor2.setSpeed(255);
  motor3.setSpeed(255);
  motor4.setSpeed(255);
}

void left() {
  Serial.println(“Pivot left”);
  motor1.run(BACKWARD);
  motor2.run(BACKWARD);
  motor3.run(FORWARD);
  motor4.run(FORWARD);
  motor1.setSpeed(255);
  motor2.setSpeed(255);  
  motor3.setSpeed(255);
  motor4.setSpeed(255);
}

void right() {
  Serial.println(“Pivot right”);
  motor1.run(FORWARD);
  motor2.run(FORWARD);
  motor3.run(BACKWARD);
  motor4.run(BACKWARD);
  motor1.setSpeed(255);
  motor2.setSpeed(255);  
  motor3.setSpeed(255);
  motor4.setSpeed(255);
}

void halt() {
  uint8_t i;
  for (i=255; i!=0; i–) {
    motor1.setSpeed(i);
    motor2.setSpeed(i);
    motor3.setSpeed(i);
    motor4.setSpeed(i);
    delay(10);
    }
   Serial.println(“All motors stop”);
   motor1.run(RELEASE);
   motor2.run(RELEASE);
   motor3.run(RELEASE);
   motor4.run(RELEASE);   
}

void avoidLeft() {
  halt();
  backup();
  delay(1500);
  left();
  delay(900);
}

void avoidRight() {
  halt();
  backup();
  delay(1500);
  right();
  delay(900);

}

 

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Thanks meenzal

That was exactly what I needed to get me started with my first wall avoiding robot.