I2C motor controller board recommendation for pan/tilt camera?

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I need to make a small robust pan/tilt camera that is controlled via I2C.
I plan to use two very small DC gearmotors to drive it, one in pan and the
other in tilt. The camera will be one of those small lightweight metal boxed
board cameras, you know, about 1" x 1" with a changable board lens.

Since the power requirements are very small, can anybody suggest a source of
a very small I2C dual motor controller board (or two small single motor
controller boards)? thanks for any help at all.



Re: I2C motor controller board recommendation for pan/tilt camera?


     When you say something like "very small" here, please give numbers.
To digital camera designers, milliwatt piezo motors are "very small".
In heavy industrial automation, anything under 100 watts is "very small".

                    John Nagle


Re: I2C motor controller board recommendation for pan/tilt camera?

I don't know about I2C, but Pololu makes a serial controller.  If you
know something about microcontrollers I'm sure you would whip up an
I2C-to-serial interface, it would be quite easy.

Mike



Re: I2C motor controller board recommendation for pan/tilt camera?


You might want to consider hobby servo motors for moving a small
camera like that.  You can buy a hobby servo pan/tilt unit very
cheaply.  If you go that way, you could use an SD21 servo controller,
which has an I2C interface.

BRW


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