Friday, April 18, 2025

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Love Actuator (linear of course)

Many times in the past I've fiddled with electronics projects and thought "That'd be useful one day for <insert some long term unicorn quest that's never going to happen>".

So for instance many moons ago in a magnanimous gesture to help out a disinterested thimblerigger, I slaved over an L298N project as part of a commercial gin venture where a motor rocked a gin barrel and <blah blah blah> long story short I gave away the hardware and software and did not get any gin! ðŸ˜²ðŸ¤¬

Anyhoo, I've nearly recovered my benign composure and here we are in 2025 and I have need for a motor driver to push a linear actuator around so it in turn can torment a window (louvre to be precise) into opening and closing.

Enter the L298N in all it's glory. Go you H-Bridge motor driver.

I'm also going to once again make the code available to you for free, but this time you can buy your own damn hardware! ðŸ˜‚

The whole shebang worked pretty well and you can check out the github repo for the code and the video linked below for insight into my process.

Any questions feel free to ask in the comments section below the video - also please consider supporting the channel by liking, subscribing and sharing as the YT algorithm is punching me in the guts a bit at the moment!

Take care y'all.





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