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Dagu Rover 5 in action
Finally I received all the parts to make a small pcb to distribute the power for my Rover 5. I soldered some terminal blocks on it so I could connect my 2 cell 7,4V Lipo battery. The Dagu red back spider robot controller and the motors get their power direct from the Lipo battery. I [...]
Remote controlling the Dagu Rover 5 with a joystick
I’ve hooked up the 4 motors from the Rover 5 to the motor controller and connected the direction and PWM pins to the red back spider robot controller (that’s a very long name). When you connect the motors to the motor controller take a good look which motor is what number. You don’t want to [...]
Blink without delay and millis but with a DS1307.
I’ve been breaking my head over this for the last hour. I want to use the DS1307 RTC module in a home automation project. To do certain time based things. So I thought lets try to rewrite the “blink without delay” example that comes with the Arduino IDE and use the data from the DS1307 [...]
Dagu Rover 5
On friday DHL delivered my new toys Arduino-direct have expanded their shop with robotics, and is now offering the Rover 5 and the Dagu controller boards. I had tried to order the Rover 5 at several European shops but none could deliver one, they were all out of stock. So I ordered it from Arduino-direct [...]
Arduino on a breadboard
The Arduino Uno together with the Arduino IDE is an easy way to program the Atmel ATmega 328P micro controller. You don’t really need to buy an Arduino board if you want to play with the Arduino IDE. You can just buy an Atmel ATmega 328P, 2 capacitors, a crystal and a 10K resistor. Plug [...]