Control a DC motor via a standard H-bridge using a PwmOut pin to control speed and two DigitalOut pins to control direction. Can change pwm period on the PwmOut pin, and also brake high or low.

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+/* mbed simple H-bridge motor controller
+ * Copyright (c) 2007-2010, sford
+ *
+ * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+ * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+ * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+ * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+ * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+ * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+ *
+ * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+ * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+ *
+ * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+ * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+ * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+ * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+ * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+ * THE SOFTWARE.
+ */
+
+#ifndef MBED_MOTOR_H
+#define MBED_MOTOR_H
+
+#include "mbed.h"
+
+/** Interface to control a standard DC motor 
+ * with an H-bridge using a PwmOut and 2 DigitalOuts
+ */
+class Motor {
+public:
+
+    /** Create a motor control interface    
+     *
+     * @param pwm A PwmOut pin, driving the H-bridge enable line to control the speed
+     * @param fwd A DigitalOut, set high when the motor should go forward
+     * @param rev A DigitalOut, set high when the motor should go backwards
+     */
+    Motor(PinName pwm, PinName fwd, PinName rev);
+    
+    /** Set the speed of the motor
+     * 
+     * @param speed The speed of the motor as a normalised value between -1.0 and 1.0
+     */
+    void speed(float speed);
+    
+    /** Set the period of the pwm duty cycle.
+     *
+     * Wrapper for PwmOut::period()
+     *
+     * @param seconds - Pwm duty cycle in seconds.
+     */
+    void period(float period);
+
+protected:
+    PwmOut _pwm;
+    DigitalOut _fwd;
+    DigitalOut _rev;
+
+};
+
+#endif