Fans want to watch their shows. They’ll pay to make that happen. Everything else is mired in entrenched interests. Find a way to make that happen and we’ll all agree that Firefly jumped the shark during its seventh season.
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I wanted to play around with controling something throught the Arduino.
This circuit allows you to control the speed of the DC motor via the potentiometer.
Random Notes/Thoughts:
New values from the pot are sent to serial. Nothing is sent if the value doesn't change. The motor pin is only updated if the value changes. This is probably a useless 'optimization'. 250ms seems like a good sleep time. Here is the sketch: »