User Manual

MakeCode DC Motors

Zoom! Cricket is a great motor driver platform and with

MakeCode, it's super easy to use. Just connect to the

Crickit Motor block.

The Crickit with Circuit Playground Express is shown first

at left.

Note the GND terminal is not usually used with motors.

And using motors with micro:bit is just as easy.

Note: the micro:bit is not shown in the diagram at left for

clarity, you'll need to plug one into the Crickit slot to

have everything work.

You can drive two separate DC motors, so lets go ahead and get right to it!

DC motors are controlled by 4 PWM (adjustable speed) output pins, the 4 pins let you control speed

and

direction. And

we'll use our CRICKIT Motors block set to help us manage the speed and direction for us, making it very easy to control

motors

Note that each DC motor is a little different, so just because you have two at the same speed does not mean they'll

rotate at the

exact

same speed! Some tweaking may be required

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