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Intel Galileo Essentials

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Intel Galileo Essentials

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Intel Galileo Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Connecting the servo controller to the Galileo


You've checked the servo motor controller and the servos; you'll now connect the motor controller up to the Galileo and make sure you can control the servos from it.

Let's now talk to the motor controller. Here are the steps:

  1. Connect Galileo to the motor controller by connecting a mini USB-to-mini USB cable. Connect the cable to the USB host connection on the Galileo, like this:

  2. Download the Linux code from Pololu at www.pololu.com/docs/0J40/3.b. Perhaps the best way is to log onto your Galileo, then type wget http://www.pololu.com/file/download/maestro-linux-100507.tar.gz?file_id=0J315.

  3. Then, move the file using this command:

     mv maestro-linux-100507.tar.gz\?file_id\=0J315 maestro-linux-100507.tar.gz
    
  4. Unpack the file by typing tar –xzfv maestro_linux_011507.tar.gz. This will create a directory called maestro_linux. Go to that directory by typing cd maestro_linux and then type ls, you should see something like this:

The document README.txt will give...