Motors question!

[Andre Goncalves]

Hi!

I?ve tried to control a small motor from those small battery cheap cars and
it works when connected to the inputs!
But it seems that I can?t turn it off! I didn?t want to control its rotation
speed just on and off!

Other thing i can?t get any action when connecting it to the outputs...

Can someone help me out?

Thankx in advance

All the best
andre

[Chris Hand]

Tom Igoe's excellent minisite on Physical Computing has motor
control circuits:

http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~tigoe/pcomp/index.shtml

(Almost any hobby electronics book would have some in, too.)

I've not used Infusion's Switch actuator, but it seems to be able
to switch 200V dc / 1 Amp, which would easily be enough for any motor.


Chris

[Chris Hand]

Here's a link to another great site on physical computing:

http://design.ucla.edu/senselab/


Chris