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Tutorial 05 for Arduino: Motors and Transistors

Jeremy Blum

Why people recommend it

Part of Jeremy Blum's Arduino series, driving a DC motor through a transistor; followed by beginners, who often then ask about base resistors and battery choice.

Watch for: a 9 V battery struggles to power motors

In their words

I have essentially taken this video tutorial and migrated it to this setup and I am using the Arduino to turn it on and off using the wire library and bitWrite.

Kenn on electronics.stackexchange.com, Feb 2013. CC BY-SA.

I've been following this tutorial on Arduinos, for the ones that are interested it's this one.

Tobias Heuts on electronics.stackexchange.com, Aug 2018. CC BY-SA.

I feel like the current given from the i/o pin should be enough, especially given tutorials like this:

pwee92 on electronics.stackexchange.com, Jul 2013. CC BY-SA.

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