Just wanted to show of a first design of my new project. It’s a tank robot which will be completely full with sensors and other cool stuff 8)
Features I plan:
*Autonomous driving using sensoring
*GPS location and geologging
*Remote surveillance and observation
*Fully suspended drive train
*RFID
I let it rest a bit. Having some problems with the servo power and 2 servos got damaged.
Planning some new stuff for the other one, but might take a while.
In the meantime I have come up with this project. Not only because the other is damaged, but I would like to try the new cool stuff I won with the contest 8)
Gus, I did not get a response on my PWM question, so here it is:
DC Motor drivers have both the same error with the PWM declaration:
This line:
Gives this error:
What is wrong?
Almost ready with the plexi and paint. Will post images later on 8)
Be careful with that tamiya (sp?) gear box. They can strip out gears pretty easy if the axles are not well supported outside of the gearbox. If you only depend on the gearbox for support than they will strip quickly.
I have used those gearboxes before and I wasn’t really happy with them. the big issue I had was with the fact that the motors are really fragile. That’s the reason why I bought the high powered RC car. It’s about as fragile as a rock :o
Throwing in some solarbotics replacement motors will save your battery life and give you more power. I have the same gear boxes i used on a line follower works good enough but i replaced the motors to have more of a umph.
