When you want some movement a motor is usually the first item you’ll turn to, yet they need some caution when working with micro-controllers or indeed any controlling electronics. If you’re looking at driving stepper-motors or servo motors then see these articles (steppers, servos) . This article and supporting video will look at driving analogue motors like the ones shown below;
Lego have produced many styles of motors over the years (including clockwork ones!) but one of the most popular old style motors was the 9V Technic one, used in many builds. Many of you may still have these motors hanging about. In the video below we look at how to […]
In this project we build a type of radar system using sound, a “Sodar”. It implements the traditional “sweeping” display using an OLED display. Click to discover more!
A supporting video is available for this article : Brief Introduction to Stepper Motors A stepper motor behaves just like a normal motor in so much that it has a rotating shaft but that’s where the similarity mostly ends. When hooked up to some sort of controlling device the shaft […]
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