Rover Pi

In order to move our Raspberry Pi powered rover, we will need at least two DC motors to power a left and right set of wheels. The motors will be used to move the rover forward and reverse, as well as rotate left and right.
To accomplish this, we figured out how to modify the DC motor tutorial on adafruit.com  to go from controlling one DC motor to two independent DC motors. Controlling two DC motors was accomplished with one L293D dual H-bridge motor driver chip, additional...

One thing that came with my RasPi kit was the light sensor. Getting it to work was easy enough using this great tutorial on adafruit
After playing with the sensor with the example script, and figuring out the rc range of values that indicate that the light is on or off in my home office, I added some logic to print "THE LIGHT IS ON" and "THE LIGHT IS OFF"....

After posting the last article on reddit, a couple fine folks over there recommended using some other frameworks. I will definitely be taking a look at webiopi - link.
Just looking at some of the examples online, webiopi looks a bit easier than how I was approaching things....

***UPDATE: github repository of code: https://github.com/bugbiteme/ledctrl.blog
In my last post I covered the basics on how to get an LED to turn on with a very simple Python script.  From there I created an application that turns on an LED if an IP address is detected on the network....