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Gertbot
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Rev 2.3-September-2014
I want to use it NOW!
If you are like a lot of engineers you don’t want to read a manual, you want to get started NOW. I can’t
recommend that but this chapter might limit the damage if you still want to do so. Please use the
following steps:
1. Connect a DC-brushed motor or stepper motor to the Gertbot. Also connect a power supply for your
motors to the Gertbot. See §2 Connecting things up for how to do that.
(From here the instructions assumes you have connected a DC motor to contacts A1,A2 or a stepper motor to contacts
A1,A2,B1,B2)
2. Plug the Gertbot board on top of a Raspberry-Pi board which is powered down. Then boot the device.
(On a B+ make sure to plug the board on GPIO pins 1-26.)
3. Login and download the software: git clone git:://github.com/<TODO>
(You might want to make a directory to put all the Gertbot data into)
4. If you have not started the X-windows system yet, do so now: startx
5. Open a terminal window and go to the directory where you have cloned the Gertbot GUI software.
Type ./gertbot (That is dot-slash-gertbot). (You may get a warning that your UART is not available. If so
follow the instructions to enable the UART.) After that you see this:
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