hi
In was wondering what i would need to do to get a mini-itx board unnint ROS to control 2 dc hobby motors on a old 1/32 tank that I have …what else would I need to
controlm the of on etc to the DC motors on the tank
(its an old MRC tamiya remot controlled tank the contoller is attached by wire an the motors ar turned of and on by completing the circuit)
There are quite a few single board computers which run Linux, and a few which can run Windows.
All you really need is a USB port to connect to a DC motor controller.
Many people use Python rather than ROS< but the choice is yours.
hmmm ok cool I looked at the DC controllers and found these in my price point
robotshop.com/en/raspirobot- … board.html
robotshop.com/en/sfe-2a-5v-1 … oller.html
can the 2 DC controllers above control something like
robotshop.com/ca/en/tamiya-t … fgodEhwAVQ
I am assuming that via sireal/usb the computer ros or python send signals to the controller that turns the motors either off or on the raspibot one looks like it has power headers but the other one doesn’t seem to have that …how would it control the motors?
I run ROS under ubuntu on a mini-itx. Intel’s board. On-board PS.
Alan KM6VV
We just entered this which we’ll be testing:
robotshop.com/en/drv8835-dua … -pi-b.html
Note that the motors on the Tamiya Twin Motor Gearbox operate best at 3.5V, so you might swap them for these:
robotshop.com/en/brushed-dc- … RB-Pol-202
WOW! thanks …now since it has a gpio header can i somehow still use that with a generic mini ITX mobo not the R-PI board I am new to this so intuativly if i can map pins on the rpib+ board to pins on the itx i should be good to go and just jumper them with wire right?
