Is there a tutorial anywhere that you know of that has a very simple diagram or tutorial for connecting and programming a 12v DC motor similar to this one? Happy to use a shield if needed, but I don’t understand how they work and I still don’t know what commands I need to send it… or even how to do that.
I’m finding it really hard to get my head around simply controlling the motor with a photon.
You maybe should start by looking for projects you want to do (i.e. emulate) and review their choices on motors/controllers/etc. Lots of projects out there controlling blinds.
these units do have their issues, one of which is it a 64:1 reduction. a good thing is that they have quite a bit of write-up and coding examples on the internet, i guess because they are fairly cheap and usually easy to get. they do not go very fast, however, which is the biggest thing i do not like. and there seems to be a couple different units under the same numbers because i found that some libraries & examples do not work on what i have whereas they reportedly work on other ones of the same model number.
examples with a particle in the mix?, no. i guess i did not explain myself well. i meant to say just plain operation of the motor examples which did not include particle products but help in getting an understanding of the unit. i can put up some link for that if it would help.i never considered using photon/electron in my project because i had a couple small wifi modules for my cars.
thought since it was still on my mind i’d go ahead and put up the links i was talking about , perhaps they interest someone,
