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In this example we aim to accomplish one of the most common tasks: I have a small DC motor laying around, how do I use my Arduino to control it? Easy, with PWM and serial communication, using the function analogWrite() and the Serial library. The basics Pulse Width Modulation or PWM for short is a...

The TLC5940 is a handy item to have when you run out of PWM ports on the Arduino. It has 16 channels, each individually controllable with 12 bits of resolution (0-4095). An existing library is available at http://playground.arduino.cc/Learning/TLC5940. It is useful for controlling multiple servos or...