This product is retired, please consider our Raspberry Pi Motor Board v1.0 as your alternative choice.

• Comprehensive and easy to use Python library
• Supplied fully assembled - no soldering
• Bi-directional control of two motors (L293 chip)
• Variable (PWM) power control. This allows you to both control the speed of the motors independently and use lower voltage motors than the voltage of your battery pack.
• Supplies the Raspberry Pi with upto 2A using a switch mode power supply - run a fully loaded Pi and the Robot from 6 x AA batteries
• Rangefinder header socket directly compatible with a cheap HC-SR-04 ultrasonic range finder. Just plug it in
• 5V I2C header, pin compatible with Adafruit displays
• Two buffered open collector outputs
• Two LEDsTwo switch inputs
• Screw terminals for motors and battery

Application

For full information on installing the library and controlling your RRBv2 from Python, see the library's github page here.