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You are supposed to make them pretty

Me little babbies

circuit diags in oils or GTFO

Do you have an idea of how h bridges look/work?

Or in general motors?

Yeah that's the closed box

I know those grounds are where they are for a reason and theres a reason there's 4 of them and the reason isnt grounding 😄

Say one wire of the motor is A and the other is B

I A has an higher voltage than B, motore spins one way

And vice versa

Those switches do just that

The motor pins control two of those switches each

S1-4 and S2-3

Ok for now?

not S1-2 and S3-4?

Nope

to clarify, i have my motors connected this way: left pins == left motor, right pins = right motor. this is bad?

If it were the case, you would just connect vcc and ground

It's cool

Don't think about the specific ic

It's just the concept

but i could swap them 1-4 and 2-3 and it will work the same, ya?

Just reversed

i read people do that for stacking

You can look at inline videos with animations and stuff to clarify

1 and 4 are already connected...

The l293 is a dual oc

It has 2 of the circuits above

it's 2 sets of 2 H bridge, yes?

Ok the concept of the j bridge is generic you can easily find it online

The reason you don't need enable is as follows

If you wire the two ends of a motor together, it will try not to rotate

That's regenerative breaking for you

So if you have bot direction pins in the same state, the motor will stop

That's why you can use just those two pins, only one of them as pwm, and do everything you would do with enable

Your handle is l293D but you don't know how j bridges work?

Call me 555 cause I'm triggered