{"id":10700,"date":"2014-08-09T07:53:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T07:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=10664"},"modified":"2014-08-09T07:53:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T07:53:18","slug":"control-motors-with-your-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10700","title":{"rendered":"Control motors with your Raspberry Pi and this video tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/6685\/products\/robot2_large.jpg?resize=480%2C360\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has done a new video! Always slickly produced and accessible, this one is an update to a previous video he did in which he controls a DC motor. He uses a <a href=\"http:\/\/store.ryanteck.uk\/collections\/frontpage\/products\/ryanteck-motor-controller-board\" target=\"_blank\">RyanTeck Motor Controller Board<\/a> and a battery pack, adds them to a Raspberry Pi and writes some Python to control movement. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JJXzlCK4vnY\" target=\"_blank\">Watch\u00a0it on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has done a new video! Always slickly produced and accessible, this one is an update to a previous video he did in which he controls a DC motor. 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