Custom Motors

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Big idea

Custom motors allow you to add new motor types to Bottango by providing a workflow for your own motor driving code and logic.

Bottango is always improving, and more supported effectors and motors are always on the roadmap. In the meanwhile, Bottango provides a workflow for adding support yourself for a motor type that doesn’t have official support yet.

Custom motors look a lot like custom events

If you haven’t already read and understood the section on custom events, take a step back and check that out first. You will especially need to understand the role of an identifier in custom events, as custom motors use identifiers as well. It’s also useful to understand the process of adding your own logic to custom event callbacks in the Bottango Arduino code, as you’ll be doing something very similar.

Custom motors require you to modify microcontroller code

Inherent to using a custom motor, you’re going to need to write some of your own code to handle what to do when the custom motor is registered, deregistered, and driven. The exact details of how your motor responds to different lifecycle events will be in your hands.