Category Archives: BeagleBone


Meet SlushEngine, an easy controller for up to 4 bi-polar stepper motors

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Roboteurs, Inc., a Canada-based company introduces SlushEngine, a smart stepper motor driver for the Raspberry Pi platform to control stepper motors with precision, speed, and simplicity. It is compatible with varieties of stepper motors and is controlled through a Pythan code running on the Raspberry Pi. SlushEngine: Model X technical specifications Controls up to 4 bi-polar stepper motors Max 7A / motor 9-35 V DC operating range 1-128 microstepping capabilities Integrated motion engine in stepper driver 4 limit switch inputs 4 general purpose industrial inputs 4 general purpose industrial outputs (3A / 24V) 8 additional logic level I/O Thermistor temperature sensing

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Order your favorite pizza with just the push of a button

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Hungry pizza-lover yet excessively lethargic to pick up the phone or use an app to order online? Don’t worry, this Emergency Pizza button will let you instantly order a pizza full of your favorite toppings with the simple push of the button. The Pizza Button uses the BeagleBone Black microcontroller board which does all of web scrapping for you behind the screen. When the button is pressed, the web scraper can log into your Grub Hub account and order a pizza from your favorite online store (the author has programmed it for making online order from San Francisco North Beach Pizza). The Python

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