Servo Driver Module Shield 16 Channel 12-bit PWM I2C interface PCA9685

You want to make a cool Arduino robot, maybe a hexapod walker, or maybe just a piece of art with a lot of moving parts. Or maybe you want to drive a lot of LEDs with precise PWM output. Then you realize that the Arduino has only a few PWM outputs, and maybe those outputs are conflicting with another shield! What now? You could give up OR you could just get our handy PWM and Servo driver shield. It’s just like our popular PWM/Servo Breakout but now Arduino-ready and works with any Arduino that uses shields: Uno, Leo, Mega, ADK, its all good.

16-Channel 12-bit PWM Servo shield I2C interface PCA9685

• There’s an I2C-controlled PWM driver with a built in clock
• You do not need to continuously send it a signal tying up your microcontroller, it is completely free running!
• It is 5V compliant, which means you can control it from a 3.3V Arduino and still safely drive up to 6V outputs
• 6 address select pins so you can stack up to 62 of these on a single i2c bus, a total of 992 outputs – that’s a lot of servos or LEDs
• Adjustable frequency PWM up to about 1.6 KHz
• 12-bit resolution for each output – for servos, that means about 4us resolution at 60Hz update rate
• Configurable push-pull or open-drain output
• Terminal block for power input (or you can use the 0.1″” breakouts on the side)
• Reverse polarity protection on the terminal block input
• Green and red power-good LEDs
• 3 pin connectors in groups of 4 so you can plug in 16 servos at once
• A spot to place a big capacitor on the V line (in case you need it)
• 220 ohm series resistors on all the output lines to protect them, and to make driving LEDs trivial
• Solder jumpers for the 6 address select pins
• A lot of extra space remaining? Let’s turn it into a prototyping area. You get a 5×20 proto area for any extra wiring you’d like to add