SERVO HAT FOR RASPBERRY PI - Can it run DC motors and/or ste

[DanBear]

I'm new to this so forgive me if this is explained in the documentation somewhere but can the SERVO HAT FOR RASPBERRY PI (https://www.adafruit.com/products/2327) drive non-servo motors as well?

I'm reluctant to use a HAT because it eats all the GPIOs (and I love me some GPIO) but this would be an all-in-one answer if it could drive all the motors for my project (servos and steppers).

If not, is there a product that could work instead?
Is there a way to utilize a few of the GPIO pins while the HAT is on?

(I need to drive, at most, 2 full range motors and 4 servos.)

[adafruit_support_mike]

You don't have to give up GPIO when using a Pi Hat. There's a row of holes just next to the header connections that break out most of the signals.

The PWM controller for the Motor Hat is a PCA9685, the same chip the Arduino shield uses, and it communicates using I2C. You don't even lose those pins since I2C is a shared-bus protocol, you just have to avoid address collisions.

[DanBear]

Fantastic news! Thanks for the help!