{"id":16755,"date":"2017-04-14T19:53:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T18:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16755"},"modified":"2017-04-14T19:53:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T18:53:58","slug":"new-hat-to-generate-motor-control-pulses-for-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16755","title":{"rendered":"New HAT to generate motor-control pulses for the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pthat.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16756\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pthat.png?resize=560%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pthat.png?w=1350&amp;ssl=1 1350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pthat.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pthat.png?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pthat.png?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pthat.png?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pthat.png?resize=260%2C195&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pthat.png?resize=160%2C120&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pthat.png?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sean Hegarty has been in touch about a new HAT-format board that he and his company (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukcnc.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNC Design Ltd<\/a>) have released for the Raspberry Pi. It allows\u00a0clean, fast and accurate pulses to be created using simple ASCII commands. This is especially useful for &#8220;hardware designs\u00a0where a variable frequency pulse is needed, but one that is the most popular is for driving stepper\/servo motors that use pulse and direction lines&#8221;. It has an on-board Arm Cortex M4 processor running at 100MHz and dedicated direct digital synthesizer (DDS) pulse\u00a0generators with 0.004Hz resolution for each channel. The HAT stack is capable of up to 4 individual pulse train outputs and also has <a href=\"http:\/\/pthat.com\/index.php\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\">a bunch of other features that you can read about here<\/a>. The full package is \u00a355+VAT and you can get the boards <a href=\"http:\/\/pthat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">from their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Hegarty has been in touch about a new HAT-format board that he and his company (CNC Design Ltd) have released for the Raspberry Pi. It allows\u00a0clean, fast and accurate pulses to be created using simple ASCII commands. This is&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16755\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,45,47],"tags":[330,331],"class_list":["post-16755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gpio-boards","category-robotics","category-rpi-shopping","tag-hat","tag-stepper-motors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New HAT to generate motor-control pulses for the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16755\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New HAT to generate motor-control pulses for the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sean Hegarty has been in touch about a new HAT-format board that he and his company (CNC Design Ltd) have released for the Raspberry Pi. 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