Hi everyone,
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
As you know, comments, ideas, questions and suggestions are always welcome! :)
Oh, the name comes from this Portuguese traditional toy.
I think that the mean in English of "Pião" is a "Top".
- Actuators / output devices: drill motors
- Control method: Wiimote using bluetooth, a processing application and serial communication
- CPU: Arduino Duemilanove
- Power source: 12V drill batteries
- Programming language: Arduino, Processing
- Target environment: Open areas
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/piao
