A Comparison of Motor Driver Boards

A Comparison of Motor Driver Boards#

In Progress

Board

Motor Outputs

Power Supply

GPIO

Coding

Difficulty

Notes

ELECFREAKS Motor:bit

2

6 - 12V

Yes

MakeCode
MicroPython

*

4tronix Drive:bit

2

6 - 10V

Yes

MakeCode
MicroPython

**

Adafuit Crickit

2

5V

Yes

Arduino
CircuitPython
MakeCode

***

DFRobot micro:Driver

4

3.5 - 5.5V

Yes

MakeCode

**

Keyestudio DRV8833 Motor Driver Expansion Board

2

6-12V

Yes

MakeCode
MicroPython

***

No dedicated MakeCode Extension

Kitronik Compact Motor Driver

2

3V - 10.8V

Yes

MakeCode
MicroPython

**

KittenBot Robotbit Robotics expansion board

4

5V

Yes

KittenBlock
<br /MakeCode
MicroPython

**

Velleman Motor Shield

2

6-12V

Yes

MakeCode
MicroPython

***

No dedicated MakeCode Extension