motor-controller v0.0.1

Motor Controller (Pololu TB9051FTG Dual)

General

Code to run motors using Pololu TB9051FTG Dual and Raspberry Pi

Pinout

• Left Motor negative pole -> M1A

• Left Motor positive pole -> M1B

• Right Motor negative pole -> M2B

• Right Motor positive pole -> M2A

• Battery Positive -> VIN

• Battery GND ->GND

• No need to make any changes between controller hat and raspberry pi, pins may vary between other brands and controllers which can be changed in motorDriver.js

Installation

• get the latest node:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

• cd inside the motor-driver folder and run: npm install
• To run the program: npm start or sudo node index.js (sudo is needed to control pins of Paspberry Pi)