**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Mon Sep 05 02:59:56 2022 Sep 05 14:21:21 is there a "tutorial" or some documentation, how to make an engine go on/off with rasberry pi? Sep 05 14:22:03 Guest73: Like an internal combustion engine in a vehicle? Sep 05 14:23:49 i was thinking more of a brushless engine Sep 05 14:24:11 An electric motor? Sep 05 14:24:25 yes, sir Sep 05 14:25:10 it would be for a winch on a drone Sep 05 14:27:16 I don't have experience with it, but I think you will need a controller in between the motor and the RPi Sep 05 14:28:03 The RPi sends PWM signals to the motor controller, and the controller will drive the motor. Sep 05 14:30:30 General-purpose input/output? Sep 05 14:30:31 Guest73: https://www.instructables.com/Driving-an-ESCBrushless-Motor-Using-Raspberry-Pi/ <-- a tutorial of some sort. I don't know how good it is or not, but it may give you some hints. Sep 05 14:31:38 Guest73: I don't know much about the RPi as I mainly dabble with Beaglebones, so I'm not sure which pins you use for sending out PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) signals. Sep 05 14:33:07 allright, i'll look into it.. arrigato :) Sep 05 14:33:34 Guest73: Good luck :) Sep 05 15:01:06 .. why would someone ask for a tutorial on how to do something with an rpi... *here* ? :P Sep 05 17:48:16 Must have been using very obscure search terms on the web to arrive here :P ...I suspect their english vocabulary wasn't geared up for finding what they were looking for. Sep 05 18:45:39 hey it's still better than the person asking about serial communication where it took a page or two of chat to uncover that they were really asking for help getting their custom kernel driver (a simplified serial driver based on an online tutorial) to work, which was apparently some kind of school project :P **** ENDING LOGGING AT Tue Sep 06 02:59:56 2022