robotmaker
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lot of are using a roomba 400 series with EZB and its a great platform for any type of robot design with decks or without,mostly go very cheap on ebay $35 average price when you remove all vacuum motors,and parts you have a lot of room,plus 2 high current switches (1.5 amp) and 1 low current switch (500 ma) plus auto docking and charging ,total weight it can carry is little over 35 lbs
so i design and made a motor upgrade kit i am looking to sell soon it will double the carry weight,has changes to main PCB and higher torque motors szoon as i finish testing the themal and current protection and few other tests will be selling it
Whoa that's awesome
mostly not looking to make much money,just for the parts mostly so many projects not enough time in the day
Hi robotmaker, Do you still sale your Roomba motor upgrade kit? I have the Roomba Create unit and I used it as my robot platform. However, it hardly moves. I need to squeeze more torque from my Roomba. Another option I have is to forget about the Roomba and get an h-bridge and motors.
Yes still for sale,mostly it done except motor upgrade,should be ready in a week, and depends what you want deck on top or and in bottom ,dual battery design
Just the basic roomba without motor upgrade and top deck $45 plus shipping,i think about $15 more for relay and control circuit,TOP DECK IS ABOUT $12 from zagro's its 12 inch round abs deck
If you use a H-BRIDGE on the motors ,.may not be able to track navigation or return to home base charger
Motors are longer.so i cut out a hole where the dust bin was,plus mosfets all 8 of them need higher power or 2 in parallel,plus current sense resistor needs to be change.
inside brackets change a little using angle aluminium and it will have a abs plastic on top of the angle aluminium
this one shows the deck mounted without standoff on the top and my itx box only i have standoffs on the underneath iti do have more then 5 complete without the motor upgrade
here is a photo with all my decks mounted and same one in my roomba project
Very nice! Can I do the upgrade to my Roomba Create? So all i need is the stronger motors and the pcb modification?
BOARD is about the same as roomba series,but i dont know if the motors will be able to be mounted they are longer and same DIAMETER,so the length may be a problem and the wheels need to be on a lock position ,with the kit that comes with create package
I never open one yet,and i bought 2 of them too
Ok and what if I will cut the Roomba plastic cover? Can I replace the motors?
yes then should work,motors i found that had a much higher torque is the ones off roomba BRUSH motors,i think its RS385 motor also,i need to check