Beagle Bone Black Motor control

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Can I control a motor using the same circuit setups as with the arduino [I plan on using a 24V dc motor and a 22.3V Li - ion battery

example → http://garagelab.com/profiles/blogs/tutorial-l293d-h-bridge-dc-motor-controller-with-arduino

I assume so because all I need to control the DC motor using the h-bridge is a PWM signal, and the BBB has 8 of those. If I am wrong, could somebody please point me in the right direction or maybe give me a step by step guide of how to control motors using the BBB using Debian.
Also, are there any protective measures I should take (involving the circuitry) to protect my BBB other than what is shown in the pic.\

Thanks ahead of time!

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Swazoo,

the new Moto Cape from Circuitco (available first week of July) is based on the Arduino Moto Shield with the L298 (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9815). the schematic and design files for both the Moto Shield and Moto Cape are released under open source Creative Commons license are available as a reference:

http://www.elinux.org/CircuitCo:Moto_Cape#Moto_Cape_Revision_A1

feel free to use it as an example implementation, or wait until the Moto Cape is available at Boardzoo.com:

http://boardzoo.com/index.php/beaglebone-black/motocape.html