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Crowtail
Crowtail – Base Shield
Welcome to the world of Crowtail! Crowtail is a modulated, ready-to-use toolset, it takes a building
block approach to assemble electronics. It simplifies and condenses the learning process significantly.
In our Crowtail warehouse, there are over 150 Crowtail modules and Crowtail shields!
The Crowtail products are basic-functional modules that consist of a Base Shield and various modules
with standardized connectors, each Crowtail module has its specific functions, such as light sensing
and temperature sensing. It will satisfy all you need for your project!
Crowtail is a series of products that we made to solve the messy jumper when connecting electronic
circuits. It consists of a Base Shield and some basic Crowtail modules, which help you create small,
simple, and easy-to-assemble circuits. In other words, when you use Crowtail, your electronic project
will not be messy wiring, instead, it will be a simple and easy to manage an electronic project!
For those who want to use Arduino to build their own DIY mobile platform, motor drive has always
been a problem. It need 2 DC motors at least to control their speed& direction of rotation because
you will want your platform forward, turn back, turn left or right. Besides, motors always need large
current, so, you will need some modules to help you control the large current, with a microcontroller
such as Arduino. Then, the Crowtail-Motor Base shield appears, it can meet your all demand to DIY
your mobile platform! The Crowtail-Motor Base Shield is a standard IO expansion motor driver board
for the Arduino. It regulate the IOs of Arduino to the standard Crowtail interface and have two
interfaces to drive motors or a interface to drive 4-wire stepper, which can be sorted into 4 kinds:
Analog(A), Digital(D), UART(D0&D1, D2&D3) and IIC(A4&A5):
6 Digital I/O ports (D2~D7) that have a mark “D”. These ports can be used to read and control
digital Crowtail modules (Crowtail modules that have a mark “D”), such as the Button and LEDs.
Some of the digital I/O ports can also be used as PWM (pulse width modulation) outputs;
3 Analog ports (A0~A2) that have a mark of “A”. Besides the functional of digital, these A
ports can read the analog signal, such as a potentiometer or light sensor;
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