[Klug-general] Motor system on GPIO Raspberry Pi

[Kevin Groves]

you should. cant remember if ive brought in my arduino tank....

On 21/10/13 18:07, Nathan Friend wrote:
> James - Raspberry Pi running a motor, demo at Klug please.
>
> Nathan.
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Paul Lenton <lentonp at gmail.com 
> <mailto:lentonp at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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?
>>
>>
>>
>>     -- 
>>     James Snyder
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