Basic (?) Motor Question

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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I'm just learning to work with the arduino's digital outputs to control a motor... And I'm absolutely useless with it! I'm trying to just perform the equivalent of "Hello World." I just want to be able to control the motor, turn it on or off, via code.

My current hypothesis: LED Blink with a motor instead of an LED.
The motor runs from the 5V pin, and the digital pins are 5V too (I think), so if I substitute the LED for the motor it should run.
Result: Nothing happens.

Where did my experiment go wrong? Are the pins not 5V? I've tried pins 13 through 10 and none work.

Thanks for any kind of response I can get! :slight_smile:
--Oliver

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Yep they are 5V but very low current.

Here's a tutorial that covers how to do it...

http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Labs/DCMotorControl