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Controlling a Jaguar with a Raspberry Pi

I got my order of Raspberry Pis this week. This weekend I sat down and figured out how to use the Pi to control a Jaguar. Here I'm just typing text commands at the command prompt which set the PWM pulse width going to the Jaguar. I found the right numbers using a cheap RC servo, so the Jag may use slightly different values for full forward and reverse. 600 microseconds is full reverse. 1500 microseconds is stop. 2400 microseconds is full forward.

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