Servo Control

Controlling servomotor with Create React App and Node Js.

Prerequisites

• Raspberry pi
• Node Js
• pigpio C library

Running

Open a terminal on your machine and do the following:

• Clone this repository
• Run npm install in project root
• Move the server folder to your raspberry pi.
  • On the raspberry Pi
    • Install pigpio by running sudo apt-get install pigpio
    • Ensure node js is installed
    • Navigate into the server folder and run npm install
    • Run npm start to start the backend server at https://localhost:5000
    • This code works with the yellow servomotor wire connected to pin 17. Edit server.js to in case you want to use a different pin.
• Navigate back to the project root and run npm start to start the frontend server at https://localhost:3000.
• Edit Rotate.js and replace your_raspberry_pi_address wih your actual pi address.

Servomotor connection

Other

• Check out Node Schedule for cron-like scheduling.
• Check out Pigpio to control other devices on the pi using js such as accelerometers, LEDs and ultrasonic sensors