motor drive libary to use speed control, coasting and dynamic braking. NOTE, dynamic braking my result in large currents. this may or may not set the motor driver on fire/break it/other undesired effects. so read the data sheet folks.

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+/*motor driver libary modified from the following libary,
+*  
+* mbed simple H-bridge motor controller
+* Copyright (c) 2007-2010, sford
+* 
+* by Christopher Hasler.
+* 
+* from sford's libary,
+*
+* 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
+* @param set if the motor driver is able to do braking 0 false 1 true. (addition)
+*/
+        Motor(PinName pwm, PinName fwd, PinName rev, int brakeable);
+  
+/** Set the speed of the motor (addition)
+* 
+* @param speed The speed of the motor as a normalised value between -1.0 and 1.0
+*/
+        void speed(float speed);
+        
+/** Set the the motor to coast
+* 
+* @param void motor coasts until another instruction is recived
+*/        
+  
+        void coast(void);
+
+/** Set the motor to dynamicaly brake (addition)
+* 
+* @param void motor dynamicaly brakes until another instruction is recived
+*/
+
+        void stop(void);
+        
+    protected:
+        PwmOut _pwm;
+        DigitalOut _fwd;
+        DigitalOut _rev;
+        int Brakeable; // (addition)
+ 
+};
+
+#endif