Let us continue this discussion in chat.

Trying now, thank you for your time!

It has been plugged in the entire time.

The pi4 was working but once I enabled the camera it started to act weird and then it bricked. I am using the official power supply. I have flashed the latest.

He uses a DC motor that seems as powerful as mine... it might provide some useful insight.

If I understand, you are saying DC motors might be able to work for this project? Are you still testing different motors to see which works best? In doing research before I started, I also came across this video which accomplishes the same but in a different way than I would like to do. youtube.com/watch?v=rhWaHSUVGco

I have access to a much bigger power supply today during a class which will hopefully give me more reliable results and might be the road to take... I will keep you updated with details of said power supply and how it impacts my code and motors.

@tlfong01 Again, I cannot thank you enough for the time you are putting in to help me... as a novice, it is very insightful to see your troubleshooting process and understand how you debug these sort of things.

I did realize these motors are meant for high speed rather than slow specific movements but I would like to use these if possible rather than buying separate more motors.

@Milliways the code I have provided works, it is connected to my two motors and interacts with them however I tell them.

Wow@tlfong01 I cannot thank you enough for the time you are putting into this! I appreciate it more than you know. 50 grams might be causing some misdirection here. That was a guess but it could be fine in terms of experimenting. I have a attachment to my motor that connects to a rectangle of posterboard/cardboard. I am trying to move that flap a tad more than 90 degrees, does not have to be a full 180 degrees to fold a shirt. I am automating this process here: amazon.com/BoxLegend-folding-Clothes-Laundry-flipfold/dp/…

@tlfong01 I can spare a couple degrees but not much room for that... I need the action to be done in about a second and as for torque I am lifting about 50 grams. I am new to this so adding proper detail is harder for me.