I assembled most of the Adafruit Motor/Stepper/Servo Shield for Arduino kit – v1.0 last night. Since I don’t have an Arduino yet,1 I didn’t want to solder in the connector pins. Other than those four connectors, it is all soldered up.
FYI, don’t try to put the L293D into the 16-pin sockets before you solder the socket into place. I tried to do that and it was a mistake. I bent some of the leads to the socket and stabbed myself in the finger with the L293D chip.
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