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by Simon Monk

In an earlier tutorial I looked at how you can use a RasPiRobot board to supply power to your Raspberry Pi using an AA Battery Pack. In this tutorial I take that a stage further to show how you can make your Raspberry Pi control small DC motors.

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Last updated on 2015-05-04 at 04.27.11 PM Published on 2014-09-19 at 02.40.00 PM

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