By connecting the Raspberry Pi to a network of motor drivers, we can control the motors in realtime without overloading the Raspberry Pi. The original idea of the SlushEngine was to keep it simple.

Check out a new design kit Raspberry Pi-based motor control, from Ryanteck. The RTK Raspberry Pi Motor Controller Board (RTK-000-001), available from the Adafruit website, uses the module’s GPIO pins ...

For example, a first motor uses the Raspberry Pi pins 17 and 18, and a second motor can use the pins 22 and 23. Example code for Python is provided in the tutorials section. There is also support for ...