“Delivery was very fast, I received it next day. This board arrived with one of the surface mount capacitors detached, but it wasn't too much of a problem to solder it back on. The board works very well in the robotics project I'm working on. I would have given it 5 stars had it not been for the detached capacitor.”
“I bought this Adafruit 12V DC & Stepper Motor HAT kit to drive a NEMA 17 12V DV bipolar Stepper Motor. The kit took me about an hour to solder up and fit onto my Raspberry Pi 3B and it worked perfectly with the stepper -that is after I had figured out how to configure the Adafruit software on the raspberry pi. Basically the HAT lets you drive up to two motors using Python 3.7 scripts. The code is very simple -number of steps forward or backward, and repeat on a time cycle if you wish. This was ideal for my purpose -to drive a fish feeder for my pond.
However, figuring out what packages needed to be loaded onto the Pi took me a couple of hours to figure out, because the AdaFruit documentation on the kit is well out of date. Instructions for using the Pi editor were incorrect, specifically, I had to ignore the instruction to switch the Python editor to "AdaFriuit board mode" as it was unable to detect the HAT. But running the editor in Python 3 mode (v3.7 or later needed), did the trick. The test script in AdaFruit's documentation worked perfectly. The kit passed with flying colours.
My next job was to fit the kit and motor to my pond fish feeder. It works lovely!”
“Easy to install with a decent soldering iron. Kit could have included a couple of 2.5mmx11mm standoffs for completion.
The missing standoffs would have qualified for deduction of half a star if not for the easy python integration.”
