Control motor brushless with jetson nano

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Nano
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Hi,

I have done a lot of research on how to control a brushless motor with an ESC (Electronic Speed Controller) using a nano jetson. I did not find how to connect the esc to the gpio of the jetson.
I also did not find how to make a simple code to control my motor.

If you could help me to clear these points.

Thanks in advance.

Sacha Lepresle

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Most ESCs are controled by PWM signals. You can use Jetson-gpio library to send PWM signal on jetsons GPIO connector. In samples folder there is some example code for PWM…

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Hi,
Thank you for your answer but I don’t know where to find the examples file.

Would you have an idea to connect the ESC to the jetson nano.

Sacha

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It is file jetson-gpio/samples/simple_pwm.py

Everything else is depending on your specific ESC board. You may want to look this Jetsonhacks article on Jet-Racer, part 3 is about ESC motor controller.