Linking Linux Icons to Motor Movement with Raspberry Pi

[The Sociologist]

I'm creating an automatic medicine dispenser for my school's science fair. One major aspect of it is a rotating cylinder actually containing the pills. There are holes in the cylinder that when match up with the dispensing holes will drop the medicine. Each pill will drop with micro-movements. But there are several holes for each type of medicine, so I need to program some icons on Linux that when triggered will turn the servo a certain number of degrees expelling the medicine. Is this even possible? How would I do this?

 

Thank you in advance!

 

P.S. I'm knew to Arduinos and Raspberries Pi's in general, so limited use of complex vocabulary would be appreciated but not necessary.

[tt2468]

Makea bash script that controlls the gpio pins and create a shortcut on you desktop to run it.