{"id":1510,"date":"2014-08-21T08:52:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T12:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physicalcomputing\/?page_id=1510"},"modified":"2020-07-26T12:47:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T16:47:51","slug":"motors-and-transistors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/labs\/motors-and-transistors\/","title":{"rendered":"Labs: Motors and Transistors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following labs are about controlling DC motors and other high-current loads with transistor and H-Bridges.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/labs\/motors-and-transistors\/using-a-transistor-to-control-high-current-loads-with-an-arduino\/\">Lab:  Using a Transistor to Control High Current Loads with an Arduino<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">In this tutorial, you&#8217;ll learn how to control a high-current DC load such as a DC motor or an incandescent light from a microcontroller.\n<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/labs\/motors-and-transistors\/using-a-transistor-to-control-a-high-current-load\/\">Lab:  Using a Transistor to Control a High Current Load<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">In this tutorial, you&#8217;ll learn how to control a high-current load with a transistor.\n<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/labs\/labs-arduino-digital-and-analog\/servo-motor-control-with-an-arduino\/\">Lab:  Servo Motor Control with an Arduino<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">In this tutorial, you&#8217;ll learn how to control a servomotor&#8217;s position from a microcontroller using the value returned from an analog sensor.\n<\/div><\/li><li class=\"current\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/labs\/motors-and-transistors\/\">Labs: Motors and Transistors<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">The following labs are about controlling DC motors and other high-current loads with transistor and H-Bridges.\n<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/labs\/motors-and-transistors\/lab-controlling-a-stepper-motor-with-an-h-bridge\/\">Lab: Controlling a Stepper Motor With an H-Bridge<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">This lab shows you how to set up a unipolar stepper motor using an H-Bridge.\n<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/labs\/motors-and-transistors\/lab-controlling-a-stepper-motor-with-a-step-and-direction-driver\/\">Lab: Controlling a Stepper Motor With a Step and Direction Driver<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nIntroduction\n\n\nIn the stepper motor and H-bridge lab, you learned how to control a stepper motor with a dual H-bridge driver, specifically the TB6612FNG. This is not the only driver for controlling a stepper. Step &amp; direction stepper drivers offer a simpler approach, from the microcontroller side. They have just two control pins, one for step ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/labs\/motors-and-transistors\/dc-motor-control-using-an-h-bridge\/\">Lab: DC Motor Control Using an H-Bridge<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">In this tutorial, you&#8217;ll learn how to control a DC motor&#8217;s direction using a DC Motor Driver.\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following labs are about controlling DC motors and other high-current loads with transistor and H-Bridges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,15,8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-code","category-components","category-lab","category-motors","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7284,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1510\/revisions\/7284"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}