I'm confused with how to control my rover 5

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Hi all,

I have a few questions, which may be a bit stupid but I am new to robotics.

I have a picaxe 28 pin project board, a rover 5 4WD robot platform with encoders, a parallax ping ultrasonic sensor and a standard servo.

I am planning on making an autonomous robot like that on the start here instructions.

I have found out that my picaxe won't be able to power the rover 5. So I am looking at buying the Dagu 4 channel motor controller. Will I be able to controll the rover 5 4WD and encoders, the servo and ping sensor if I buy this motor controller?

Also, can someone help me in how to wire up the motor controller and picaxe boards? And how do I controll and code it?

And finally; can I supply the robot 5V from one power source and will this be sufficient? Also, what power source do you recommend for this?

Many thanks in advance

Luke

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Hello Luke

I’m not too familiar with all the parts you mentioned, but I have looked at the Dagu 4 chanel motor controller - it takes a PWM bit and a direction bit - TTL level meaning the Picaxe or almost any micro-controller interface with the motor controller.

Here is a linke to the manual - http://myrobotlab.org/sites/default/files/dagu4MotorController.pdf

As far as 5V for everything - that would depend on the details of your motors, and I don’t remember what a rover 5 takes… but you probably can google it…

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Thanks for the reply. I’m

Thanks for the reply. I’m sure I’ll be able to work it out with the help you have given me and the manuals.