New Motor Driver Boards are here!

Last week I've received my new Motor Driver Boards:
This time they have worked as expected and successfully drove TheBox motors (better than the board from the robot which came with them).

New Domain

I'm still working on this, but I'm proud to announce that I've registered a new domain for this blog and my site for two years. 


So, from now on, you can access this blog using blog.franciscodias.net and the main site using www.franciscodias.net.

Dale Dougherty: We are makers

A nice talk by the guy who founded the Make Magazine:

Pião

See it on LMR:

http://letsmakerobots.com/node/23990

Functions:

• Navigate arround being remote controlled, for now...

Output Devices:

• 2 Drills' Motors

Microcontrollers:

• Arduino Duemilanove

Power Sources:

• 2 12V Drills' Batteries

This is my most recent project. It is a robot which uses two cheap drills’ motors, that I bought a while ago for my tank. I didn’t like using tracks, so on this one I’m using wheels.

The motors are controlled by a arduino duemilanove using this motor driver board that I designed myself:

Unfortunately I made a mistake on the design so I had to correct it with some wires…

 

The only tests I did were using a wiimote and a processing application to remote control it, but I hope to make it autonomous soon.

 

The motor holders were my first work with polymorph and are quite good :D