Control of DC motor using arduino uno

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I made a 12V dc motor controller using arduino uno board. This controller controls the speed and the direction of this motor. I used the library PWM.h to generate pwm signal, and I built the H-brige using 2 N-type mosfets and 2 P-type mosfets and some other transistors. The speed level is indicated by 7 leds connected to shift register. Also I used timer2 to interrupt every about 30ms in order to read the analog value and then generate the pwm signal and write the speed level.
The code and circuit are below:

#include <PWM.h>
unsigned char k=0, l=0, m=0, n=0;
int32_t frequency = 20000; //pwm frequency in Hz
  int timer2_initial_value,s;
   void setup(){
  pinMode(0, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(1, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(11, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(12, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(2, INPUT_PULLUP);
  pinMode(3, INPUT_PULLUP);
  pinMode(4, INPUT_PULLUP);
   InitTimersSafe();
  bool success = SetPinFrequencySafe(9, frequency);
      
  // initialize timer2 interrupt for adc reading 
  noInterrupts();           // disable all interrupts
  TCCR2A = 0;
  TCCR2B = 0;
  timer2_initial_value = 0;  
  TCNT2 = timer2_initial_value;   // preload timer
  TCCR2B |= (1 << CS22) |(1 << CS21) | (1 << CS20); // 1024 prescaler 
  TIMSK2 |= (1 << TOIE2);   // enable timer overflow interrupt
  interrupts();             // enable all interrupts
 }

 ISR(TIMER2_OVF_vect)        // interrupt service routine 
 {
  TCNT2 = timer2_initial_value;   // preload timer
  n++;
  if (n>20){
    n = 0;
    k = 0;
    if (s != analogRead(A0)){
   s = analogRead(A0); 
  pwmWrite(9,s/4);
  if (s > 950) l = 0;
  else{ if (s > 850) l = 1;
        else{ if (s > 720) l = 3;
              else{ if (s > 600) l = 7;
                    else{ if (s > 480) l = 15;
                          else{ if (s > 350) l = 31;
                                else{ if (s > 150) l = 63;
                                      else l = 127;}}}}}}
 for(m=0;m<7;m++){  //send data serially to speed level via shift register
   digitalWrite (12,bitRead(l,k));
   digitalWrite (11,1);
   digitalWrite (11,0);k++;}
  }
 }
 }
 int fwd(){
   while(1){
   digitalWrite(0,HIGH);
   digitalWrite(1,LOW);
   if (digitalRead(4)==0) break;}}
  
 int pwd(){
   while(1){
   digitalWrite(0,LOW);
   digitalWrite(1,HIGH);
   if (digitalRead(4)==0) break;}}
   
  void loop()
 {
   k = 0;
   l = 127;   //all 7 leds are off
  digitalWrite(0,LOW);
  digitalWrite(1,LOW);
  digitalWrite(13, LOW);
  if (digitalRead(2)==0) {digitalWrite(13, HIGH);fwd();}
  if (digitalRead(3)==0) {digitalWrite(13, HIGH);pwd();}
  
  for(m=0;m<7;m++){
   digitalWrite (12,bitRead(l,k));
   digitalWrite (11,1);
   digitalWrite (11,0);k++;}
 }

At last this is a video shows the working:

arduino dc motor 1.png
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Hi, looks good mate, there is a section on this forum for you to put comleted projects so other can see, they can be used as examples.
Can you include your h-bridge circuit as well, a good example, well done.
Tom..... :slight_smile:

3

Nice.

Was there a "real" reason for using a timer to read the pot, since polling would surely have been adequate? (Like you wanted to see how to do it that way for the day you really had to.)

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Yes you can just put it in the loop but the adc conversion takes more than 100us to complete so spend 100us every 30ms better than spend it at every loop.