By Bajdi on November 11, 2013
Bought a TFT display from Electrodragon. Electrodragon sells 2 versions, a 1.8″ and a 2.2″ version. I got the 2.2 inch version, it costs only 7.2$. It’s a colour (QVGA) display with 240×320 pixels. The display uses an ILI9341 driver chip. I found the datasheet of the ILI9341 here. The chip works at 3.3V, so […]
Posted in Arduino, Buying parts | Tagged TFT |
By Bajdi on November 7, 2013
My little Ebay bot is powered by 2 cheap DC geared motors. These yellow geared DC motors are very popular. Lots of cheap robot kits use them. I bought mine on Ebay and used double sided tape to stick them to the chassis of the robot. I had one annoying problem with the cheapo motors. […]
Posted in Arduino sketches | Tagged encoder, pwm |
By Bajdi on October 30, 2013
I bought most of the parts to built a self balancing bot many months ago. This time I didn’t use cheap Chinese stuff. I actually bought Pololu parts from a local shop. Pololu has a nice range of motors and motor controllers. I wanted to keep the bot small so I used the micro metal […]
Posted in Arduino sketches, Self balancing bot | Tagged MPU6050, Pololu, robot |