Getting up and running with the Gertduino/products/raspberry-pi/b/blog/posts/getting-up-and-running-with-the-gertduinoThe Raspberry Pi has definitely changed the way I develop for certain projects, and up until now, I have mostly used the little green board as a computing platform and have not ventured into using its GPIO pins very much. This is mainly because...en-USTelligent Community 12RE: Getting up and running with the Gertduinohttps://community.element14.com/products/raspberry-pi/b/blog/posts/getting-up-and-running-with-the-gertduinoMon, 24 Mar 2014 13:14:57 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:f1732228-e0f7-4783-b917-238dc6b1e260e14 Contributor1<p>great job Mr Charles</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>im working on a project with raspberry and gertduino but with <span>arduino motor shield v2</span> .. do you know if i can control 3 dc motors and 1 a bipolar stepper with this stack ?</p><p><span>you can contact me in </span><a class="jive-link-email-small" href="mailto:geospyrou@gmail.com">geospyrou@gmail.com</a><span> for more info</span></p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=16841&AppID=86&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Getting up and running with the Gertduinohttps://community.element14.com/products/raspberry-pi/b/blog/posts/getting-up-and-running-with-the-gertduinoSat, 18 Jan 2014 12:42:15 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:f1732228-e0f7-4783-b917-238dc6b1e260e14 Contributor0<p>can I play MIDI files? or can I use Gertduino for MIDI interface?</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=16841&AppID=86&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Getting up and running with the Gertduinohttps://community.element14.com/products/raspberry-pi/b/blog/posts/getting-up-and-running-with-the-gertduinoThu, 16 Jan 2014 12:03:23 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:f1732228-e0f7-4783-b917-238dc6b1e260e14 Contributor0<p>&quot;<span>Unfortunately all of the motor control solutions for the Raspberry Pi that I found involved custom boards and at the moment, I had no free time whatsoever to design and build a custom board</span>&quot; This isn&#39;t true: all you need is a L298N module (I got mine from ebay for around a fiver). Connect the motors to the module, along with a power supply and then connect the GPIO to the module and you can control the motors, including their speed and direction, directly from Python. It really is very simple and also cheap!</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=16841&AppID=86&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">