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2021-07-23 7:40 pm
Some of Bill's designs use 2 Arduino pins to provide the high and low signals to a motor driver board. My Uno is already pin limited as I have lots of inputs and outputs. Is there a way to use some external circuit to take either a high or low on one Arduino pin and provide both high and low signals to the motor driver directional inputs?
2021-07-23 8:00 pm
Do you mean so that the single pin gets split into both HIGH and LOW simultaneously ?
Output the original value on the pin and run it through a NOT gate (inverter) to get the opposite.
Maybe you could salvage some currently used pins with a shift register ?
Anything seems possible when you don't know what you're talking about.
Topic starter
2021-07-24 1:33 pm
Thanks for your response.
Since I'm also space limited on the proposed board, instead of an inverter dip device (I don't do surface mount-yet) I'll probably try just a single MOSFET connected as a simple amplifier. An issue to be dealt with using the FET, is noise on the power supply lines produced by the 1 amp DC motors. This noise, in spite of regulation, filtering, and transient noise suppression diodes, has been a problem with previous discrete implementations.