Motor sample board - how to troubleshoot?

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Hi

We bought the “Inventor’s Kit for Arduino”, and have a problem with making the 3rd board (the motor one) work.

When we connect the motor to the 5V directly - it works.

When we build the entire board - it does not. We tried connecting the motor to the analog output of the Arduino (that the program writes to) - and it does not work, although there seem to be voltage on the output.

  1. Is there a difference between the power from the “5V” output and the programmable ones?

  2. How can we troubleshoot the board? Is there some “expected voltage” in the various points on the board, that we can compare with?

Thanks