For a little servo background… See my article on the servo-trigger: Servo Triggers – Quickest, Fastest, Easiest way to make your servos dance To install node… See my NodeJS installation article: Installing NodeJS on a Raspberry PI Then… a little something on PWM Ok, a little background:  Controlling servos works by using something called PWM or Pulse Width… Continue reading Controlling Servos from your PI (No extra hardware needed) using NodeJS

One of the things a good magic wand should do is respond to magic incantations. This guide will take you through getting Google Cloud Speech APIs functioning on your Raspberry PI 3 so that you can trigger speech recognition through a button press on your magic wand. The Microphone… Before you can get speech… you… Continue reading The complete guide to enabling speech recognition on an RPI3… in NodeJS

I’ve covered this in several other articles as a side effect of getting those higher level goals complete.  But given a simple Google Search failed me…  here is this in case someone else needs it. When you just want: “Raspberry PI3 NodeJS GPIO Control” – this is how you get it done: npm install –save… Continue reading Raspberry PI3 NodeJS GPIO Control: rpi-gpio