Gertboard first contact

[J0nteH]

Things like this makes the raspberry-pi so interesting, you could mount it on the back of your TV connect the usb and hdmi cables to it. Along with this motor you could then use a simple press of your htpc wireless keyboard/mice make the TV swing down from the roof or out from the wall.

Heck with the cheap cost this is probably even the best buy you could make for such a simple thing as a internet radio.

[bfhben]

So what its inefficient, it works no? Its more a PoC at this stage rather than a final solution from what i can tell.

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

Seems to work great with the flat connector cable. Maybe they should stick with that layout instead of the mounted solution

[willdaslayer]

Is there a way to control more than one motor and have each running at a variable speed? Or am I going to have to wire up a l293d to control my 4 dc motors?

[AKOJ93]

Oh, i'm so excited to put something like this in my car! :3

[noobenstein]

test

[danhuby]

This is amazing stuff. It turns the Pi into a great platform for all sorts of electronic projects, including home automation (Gert mentions the garage door idea, can think of lots more)

[burg0110]

Fantastic work, Gert & Dom! Getting very excited now, I hope to use such a board with the Raspberry Pi to learn electronics programming.

[gojoe36]

I have no idea what your doing, but congrats....now on to the next video

[RosaRebecka]

Gert, what motor are you using? When you say it will lift 60kg, what's its torque rating? Nice gear wheel btw.



[Gabbos]

apparently this was recorded with a with a paper shredder.

[LetTheMelodyFlow]

@Gabbos haha or a calculator

[imroy264]

Gert, that code looks very inefficient. Your C code is executing 'echo' to send single text arguments to the /sys filesystem. I suggest you learn how to do file I/O in C. For your purposes it should be very simple.

[guitarsecretary]

@imroy264 Better to do it in shell script, since that's effectively what he's doing. Why bother with opening and closing each file when this is exactly what shell scripting was designed to make easy?

[DBBruijn]

Nice to see that the first developments of Raspberry PI are in The Netherlands :D

Good job dutchnemo!

[razedd]

Funny how you can tell he is Dutch from the first sentence he says. Great Work!

[ladams00]

Good work, Gert. Things are looking good.

[TheMadeMario]

I literally cannot wait to get my hands on one of these boards.

Each new video displaying the capabilities of the board just ramps up the excitement!

[mspicela]

dutchnemo, thanks for sharing! You've show how to use the driver for plain gpio use. I understand that Raspberry Pi also has SPI, I2S, and PWM. Do you know if those drivers work now? Are there any documents on how to configure and use them also?

[LordOfHell73]

Exciting stuff!

[tomsuper2199]

Nice. ;)