Hello everybody.
The winter is comming (still no snow).
and i'm think of making a remote controled snowplow.
I know that in fact you can't call it a robot if you control it you self.
But my questen was.
how to control someting an a distens.
It wil probely have 2 motor's and one or 2 servo's.
Maybe some one can help me or gife me a good link.
Thanks in advance,
Jordy
I get a feeling…
I have a feeling this is your first robot or project of this kind. If so, no problem, this can be done but you have a ways to go to get there. This would involve a microcontroller on the robot and the transmitter. The joystick of the transmitter would be read by the ADC inputs of the TX uC and you would convert the X/Y in the R/L for the motors. These values would then get sent to the uC on the robot via an X-bee or bluetooth connection using UART serial. The robot’s uC would take these values and use them to control the motors using PWM outputs to control the speed of the motors.
So there is the overview, in terms of actually getting started, you need to begin with the basics. You need a microcontroller of some kind, Picaxe, Arduino, propeller etc, a breadboard and a LED. Learn to get a LED blinking and go from there. You will have to break this problem down to smaller steps, figure out each step then put them together.
A snow plow will probably
A snow plow will probably require some large motors, batteries, etc… some power electronics and some sort of budget. Here is a cool link to a project called roboplow.
I think I will first build
I think I will first build the plow and make it work and have the controls whit a wire from a few feet and then if I got money and time left wil make it remotley.
My idee to let it drive is whit to tracks powerd by it own motor.
A motor i am thinking of has a torque of 130 N*cm
Do you think that will be strong enoug (wheels of 10cm or about 4 inch)
I’m want to gear it down.
even if it is strong enough becaus otherwise it whil go (i might have mis calculeted) 113 Km/h or about 70 miles.
I can’t run that fast:P
But who know a great way to gear a motor down.
(i didn’t pleased it for noting in the absolute beginer section)
MvG.
Jordy
the motor i was talking is
the motor i was talking is this one
I think you have
I think you have miscalculated :-)
I can’t see a 60 RPM motor with a 10cm wheel will give you 113km/h. More like 0.113km/h
That said I don’t see that tiny motor moving any snow.
No, I don’t think this motor can handle plow
You need bigger motor to drive that kind of machine in snow. I tried to build one early this year MTMP which using 2 wiper motors. However, its only enough to push or pull snow remover but not plow snow by itself. Then I build another one later this year HellOKitty which using 2 e scooter motors. This one is way more powerful to handle such job.
Here is a good one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPg1ZMiC9pA. He use super performance motor, battery and controller and I believe which cost a lot of $$$.
So, for snow plow I think you really need bigger motor. or maybe you have better idea.
FYI:
http://www.robotmarketplace.com/products/ame_motors.html
http://www.partsforscooters.com/All-Parts/100-500W-24-36v-Electric-Motors
does some one know a good
does some one know a good site where I can get a good electro motor. And whit the company of the site is in europa.
or even beter in the netherlands.
