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What voltage?

I think that your best option is to get yourself and Arduino and some sort of motor control shield. It is trivial to write a program for it take commands and publish sensor data via the serial port.

You would then have to write a small ROS node that sends commands to the arduino and publishes the encoder data back to ROS.

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