Tracked robot - the electronics

today i inhaled a good dose of solder fumes and got the board finnished.

i used a 0.5mm copper or brass rod to make the powerlines, the rest of the connection were made with wirewrap cable(30AWG).

the perfboard has square pads which i prefer over round pads because it is easier to connect 2 adjacent square pads.

the L293D 1,2EN & 3,4EN pins are pwm driven and the inputs 1A 2A 3A 4A determine the direction so 6 pins of the ATMEGA168 are used to drive the 2 motors.

battery voltage is fed to the ADC via a voltage divider and measured against the 1.1V internal aref.

the serial port is for programming via bootloader and debugging.

the servo and analog ports speak for themselves.

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time to assemble the robot!

Good looking solder job!
Good looking solder job!