On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 19:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jul 8, 5:37 pm, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 17:06 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > i hope someone here can help me. > > > > > basically, me and my friend have a summer project. > > > > > in this project, we need something that would basically function as a > > > blender. we know we'll need to buy a motor that spins, but what we're > > > having trouble with is figuring out how to program it. we want to be > > > able to control the speed of the motor. how would we accomplish this? > > > > > i'm new to all of this, so i'm having a hard time wrapping my mind > > > around how it'd be possible to program one of those things :\ > > > > > ex: what if i want the motor to turn for 10 seconds. stop for 5. then > > > turn the other direction. > > > > > would you program it the same way you would on a personal computer > > > (via c, python, etc)? > > > > The answers to your questions depend very much on what you're working > > with and how the motor is controlled. Is this supposed to be a > > self-contained machine, or is it supposed to be connected to a personal > > computer as a peripheral device? > > [...] > I would like the robot to be self contained. basically, I'd like to be > able to program functions in python, ex: > > while True: > motor.rotate(1)
Good luck with that. Your best bet IMHO is to find a single-board computer (commonly referred to as SBC) that is small enough to fit your form-factor, capable of running Linux, and equipped with a suitable I/O interface (e.g. serial or parallel port). In theory, this should allow you to put Linux and Python on it and control your motor in Python as if it were a peripheral device connected to a personal computer. In practice, I've never done anything like this, and the devil is in the details that you'll need to work out for yourself. -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
