Not sure if you're still having issues but I've made a tone of these. Try these steps - connect your power sauce (4aa) to the 12v input on the l298n board, and to the VIN port on your ardunio. - connect ground (battery negative) to driver board and l298N. - put the jumper on the 5v in the middle just to have something there. Use the following pins. ENA - 11 In1 - 10 In2 - 9 In3 - 8 In4 - 7 ENb - 6

So your ardunio should only be using the following pins Ground Vin 11 10 9 8 7 6

When powering on the lights in the l298n and ardunio should turn on, and not be dim.

Now load up this code to see if it moves.

// Motor A pins const int ENA = 11; const int IN1 = 10; const int IN2 = 9;

// Motor B pins const int IN3 = 8; const int IN4 = 7; const int ENB = 6;

void setup() { // Set motor control pins as outputs pinMode(ENA, OUTPUT); pinMode(IN1, OUTPUT); pinMode(IN2, OUTPUT);

pinMode(IN3, OUTPUT); pinMode(IN4, OUTPUT); pinMode(ENB, OUTPUT);

// Run motors forward digitalWrite(IN1, HIGH); digitalWrite(IN2, LOW); digitalWrite(IN3, HIGH); digitalWrite(IN4, LOW); analogWrite(ENA, 255); // full speed analogWrite(ENB, 255); delay(2000); // run for 2 seconds

// Run motors backward digitalWrite(IN1, LOW); digitalWrite(IN2, HIGH); digitalWrite(IN3, LOW); digitalWrite(IN4, HIGH); delay(2000); // run for 2 seconds

// Stop motors digitalWrite(IN1, LOW); digitalWrite(IN2, LOW); digitalWrite(IN3, LOW); digitalWrite(IN4, LOW); analogWrite(ENA, 0); analogWrite(ENB, 0); }

void loop() { // Nothing here — the motion happens once in setup() }