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Dagu Rover 5

Rover 5: encoder speed control

By on 17/11/2013

I’ve dusted of my Dagu Rover 5 🙂 While I’ve had my Rover 5 for almost 2 years I’ve never really used the encoders. Unfortunately my Rover 5 was delivered with an encoder that didn’t work right. So I decided to have a look at it and try to fix it. It turned out to […]

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Adding encoders to those cheap yellow motors

By on 07/11/2013

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. […]

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