[Klug-general] Motor system on GPIO Raspberry Pi

[Paul Lenton]

Sorry, to clarify:

Type "cd /home/pi/Desktop/Python\ programs" to make LXTerminal 
understand that there's a space in the path.

I was typing the reply on my phone and hit send before I meant to, so 
thought I'd clarify =)

Cheers
On 20/10/13 20:45, james snyder wrote:
>
> Re: GPIO
>
> Some new students need help running a GPIO system on a model B 
> raspberry pi running Raspberian Linux, so I am forwarding this message 
> to our KLUG group mailing list on their behalf....
>
> "We have connected the motor and battery to the GPIO RPi .
> We have saved a Python program (developed using the Python Shell) in :
> /home/pi/Desktop/Python programs
> If we click on: Python programs, we see the file: motor.py
>
> The problem is
>
> when we open LXTerminal we type:
> cd /home/pi/Desktop/Python programs (is where our motor.py is)
> We get the error message
> "No such file or directory"
>
> We have formatted another Raspberian SD Card from scratch.
>
> In order to make our motor to work we need to use LXTerminal to find a 
> directory where we have saved our file, and once we are in the 
> directory we have to run the command: sudo python motor.py  to start 
> our motor but LXTerminal says "No such file""
>
> Without actually seeing the system, based on the above log, 
> any thoughts on what the problem is here?
>
>
>
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