I have a MeArm robot arm that I have already assembled and got up and running. I’ve just put together the v2 rover and I was thinking it would be cool to mount the arm to the rover so that I can eventually repurpose a games controller to control both.
Has anyone done anything similar? Any ideas on how I can mount the arm to the rover? I’m thinking I’ll have to attach a metal frame to the PCB that can hold the arm and an extra Arduino Uno. Would I need to use a breadboard in tandem with this?
@teslamat The DFRobotShop Rover V2 is incredibly lightweight, and adding an arm would more than likely cause it to tip over in any direction because of the weight imbalance. The rover is so “bare bones” that it’s not easy to conceive of a redesign which can help with that.
If you really want to try, consider an upper mounting plate like the following:
You can easily drill some holes into this plate.
Not sure why you would need an extra Arduino.
For easy connection, you might use an IO shield:
The main AA battery pack would need to be split, and you’d need to set the jumpers correctly so the electronics didn’t receive power from two places. The easier approach would be to simply use two batteries.
If you actually have the RobotShop Rover (as opposed to the DFRobotShop Rover), then that is a much heavier platform, and you can indeed mount the arm by adding a custom plate. It is up to you if you want to continue with the breadboard approach or use something like the IO shield (or a dual motor controller shield with 3-pin headers) as above.
