{"id":82,"date":"2024-10-23T17:31:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T21:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/matthewa\/?p=82"},"modified":"2025-06-01T01:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:06:02","slug":"blog-2-arduino-dc-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/matthewa\/2024\/10\/23\/blog-2-arduino-dc-motors\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 2: Arduino – DC Motors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to my second blog!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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For my second project of the year, I have a version of Project 9 from the Arduino Uno Starter Kit. I originally had way bigger hopes for this, combining it with my third blog (upcoming) to somehow create a remote-controlled car. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I wasn’t able to make that possible. However, I have modified the booklet version of this project to include 2 motors that are connected in parallel with a diode.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Breadboard – Arduino Uno<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Jumper Wires – 2 DC Motors<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Transistor – Diode<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– 2 battery snaps – Pushbutton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Resistor – USB cable<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– 9V Battery – 2 Wooden wheels (in the kit)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Wooden base<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a diagram of said project that I got from the book, where you can see how both the 9V battery and the 5V power source from the Arduino Uno circuit powers the 2 motors (the circuit is connected to my computer). I modified this by adding a second DC motor in parallel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you can see drawn in red, this is exactly how I added the second DC motor in parallel to modify the motor. The preliminary reason why I wanted to add a second motor was for another wheel that was supposed to be for my remote-controlled car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the code I used to run the circuit. I first declare the variables and then use void setup to as the name suggests, set up the code. This string of code only runs once. I then proceed to use void loop to make the code run indefinitely, where I put the code that makes the motors run when the button is pressed, and where the code that stops the motors is put.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have zero previous experience with Arduino in the past, however I feel like I have learned the basics of coding with Arduino but I personally struggled with the circuits the most. My understanding of the transistors is still shallow and I hope by using more Arduino parts in the future I can learn to use Arduino at a higher level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to see a video of the DC Motors working, you can view that here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to my second blog! For my second project of the year, I have a version of Project 9 from the Arduino Uno Starter Kit. I originally had way bigger hopes for this, combining it with my third blog (upcoming) to somehow create a remote-controlled car. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I wasn’t able to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fusion-demonstration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/matthewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/matthewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/matthewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/matthewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/matthewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/matthewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/matthewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/matthewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/matthewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/matthewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}