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Re: Impact and Capability of Motor Brakes?

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Originally Posted by slijin View Post
If this is the only reason you're considering CAN, you may also want to look into configuring one of your GPIO pins to control this. This can be done by tying the signal line to the center pin; an OFF signal will bring you to break; an ON signal will set it to coast.

See Table 7, p6.
Awesome idea! I can't believe we didn't think of that! Trying it out pronto.

(Also, we wanted CAN for other stuff too )