I had been so exclusively focused on the pre-design work for the Wowee Roboquad hack and waiting on parts to arrive from China, I hadn't been thinking much about making another robot. While dropping some donations off at the 2nd hand-store, I happened to notice a cheap rc-car without a remote. It's was like the old dog that nobody wanted at the pound. Well, the analogy ends there because when I took it home I immediate took it dismembered everything eek except the frame and the motors. Today, I hooked it all up using the Easy-B and got it floor ready. Lesson learned you just spent a lot of money on parts and you want to make a fast robot...go to Goodwill and buy a cheap RC Car and a H-bridge and your good to go.
and yes, that's poorly cut foamcore... eyeroll
Other robots from Synthiam community
Ezang's Modified AIML BOT
DJ's Jd Humanoid Controlled By Microsoft Kinect
Nice hack though ! Heading to the local Goodwill here tomorrow just to drop off some things........
i got so many many robots from goodwill,1 neato xv-11 for $20.RAD for $8 omnibot for $25 i think i got a car just like that for $3,i bought already 6 cars my favorate was a very large batmobile from the lastest movie, for $6 and a few roomba's
mine is only 3 blocks away from my house,i go every day to check the store
GOOD HACK leversofpower
ROBOT-DOC hope you have good luck fing good robot hacks
also those types of cars you can easy hack the h-bridge that comes with it too
Thanks. I'm finding this whole robotics thing is addictive...
Less foam core is better:
i see you like spilt tubing too ,like me I see you are using a breadboard,idea thats better is buy a cheap protoboard from radio shack and solder the connections and parts,
I use bigger circuit boards or protoboards ,because i design circuits and uses alot of chips and hand solder my own board ,but they are $60 each,radio shack i think is $1.50 ,but a small board close to size of your breadboard
I have a similar project, what did you do with the motor on the back? replace it? tie it to the ezbot board? I am stuck.
Well, what I did was buy this H Bridge from eBay:
Stepper Motor Drive Controller Board Module L298N Dual H Bridge DC For Arduino
I connected it to the EZ-B using 3 digital ports.
Do you have a H-Bridge already?
No but I will now, thanks, this is my first project. Thank you for the input.