Really liking your vids Tech. Thanks for making and sharing these.

Here's the l298N detailed look. Keep in mind, I'm doing this with beginners in mind.

Hey @Technopro

The enable pins are tied to +5V with removable shunts. This means that both the internal H-Bridges inside the L298 chip are fully ON by default. The nice thing about these shunts is that they can quickly be popped off if you'd like to have variable speed control over the H-bridges. The extra two jumper wires can then be used to connect the enable lines to the EZ-B to do the speed control.

It's all plug and play no hacking required

Just to note: the switch doesn't really protect anything it just allows the user to use an external 5V regulator to power the L298 logic circuit (OFF position) or use the on-board 5V regulator (ON position). The L298 needs 5V to active it's logic circuits so I find that the easiest thing to do is leave the switch ON and use the on-board regulator. 2 things to remember: when the switch is ON the 5V terminal position is a 5V output and when the switch is OFF your supplied external 5V needs to share the same Ground reference as the main voltage supply (Grounds need to be tied together somewhere)

Hope that helps

Haha I had a good chuckle at the ending of your first video @technopro!

Thanks for the info! Here's my next video regarding the camera!

Ha, ha... love your comic endings on your videos.... So try out the camera and see what you think...

I did a quick test. It's a high quality camera. On the computer side, processed video has a half Second latency which bugs me but it doesn't mess the robot up by my guess.

Hacking videos to come soon.

You shouldn't have that much of a latency, there is no noticeable latency on my camera/V4. Are you running on an old or slow PC?