Assemble basic touch and motor controls

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Les Pounder is associate editor at Tom’s Hardware and a freelance creative technologist. He blogs about his discoveries at bigl.es

YOU NEED

Any model Pi 40 GPIO)

Raspberry Pi OS

Project 1: Crocodile clip Metallic object or conductive object USB webcam

Project 2: Two analog joysticks Two DC motors Ten female-to-male jumper wires

For this month’s tutorial we go back to a board which is now five-years old, but still has plenty of life left in it. The Explorer HAT Pro is an electronics experiment powerhouse that comes with connections for touch inputs, dual motor drivers and analog inputs for analog electronics such as potentiometers. There are also protected inputs and outputs that are 5V Arduino compatible. Oh,