Robot Building Questions

Ez-B And L298 Motor Control

I have hooked everything up as per your tutorial. My goal was to control 2 motors independently. Currently I can only run the 2 motors simultaneously. I want the choice to run each motor forward or reverse without affecting the other. My speed control is working as required (1 channel controls the speed for both motors) Can anyone send me a diagram...

Sabertooth Battery

i need to get a battery for a sabertooth 2x12. i wanted to know what other roboteers have used. this is whats in the downloadable pdf. Input voltage: 6-24V nominal, 30V absolute max. Output current: Up to 12A continuous per channel. Peak loads may be up to 25A per channel for a few seconds. These ratings are for input voltages up to 18v in still...

Wrist Ideas

Hey everyone. I have been in hardware mode right now, but have been creeping the forum.. eek I am building a humanoid type of bot. Its just from the wast up type of thing. with two arms and two different hands. It will have some type of head also. Right now I am working out a BOM for the arms and I have gotten the shoulder and elbow joints figured...

Stating The Time

Tidied up the time routine a bit to include AM and PM and some other stuff... Enjoy! #________________________________________________ Print ("+---------------------+") Print ("| Announcing the time |") Print ("+---------------------+") # say("The time is ") IF ($hour>12) $hour_word=$hour-12...

Block User Feature For Forum?

DJ, Is there anyway to add a block user/ignore posts feature to your forum? I know it's your own code, so you must be able to customize? I'm sure myself and a few others have a few people we would like to erase out of our lives. There is a disruptive force on this forum that needs to go away.

H-Bridge Details

Hi, Can someone please point me to a detailed spec sheet for the 2.5A H-Bridge that is sold on this site's Store? I read and watched the tutorial but I have more questions. Also, does anyone know what the IN1-IN4 pins are for, exactly? Why do we need 4 digital signals for 2 motors? Perhaps forward and reverse for each? Thanks, Mike

2.5 Amp Motor Controller

hi i have a h-bridge question fist i did all the wiring https://synthiam.com/Tutorials/Hardware.aspx?id=25 here i installed h-bridge like in the tutorial 1) Connect L298 VCC to your battery supply positive 2) Connect L298 GND to your battery supply negative 3) Connect L298 +5 to a +5 pin on the EZ-B (in the diagram I used +5 from Pin D0) 4) Connect...

Control Interface

Hi everyone, I think this gesture control device will be a great control interface for our EZ-Robots in the future. New Gesture Control Device

Ez-B Connect To The 4 Channel Motor Control Unit For Rover 5

Hello, I have bought a rover 5 4 motor with encoder and the 4 motor driver Board. I have watch the video from DJ Sure with the HBridge (L298N) but I can figure how to connect the 4 motor driver . Here is the board : any idea of the IN1,2,3,4 and ENA ? Do I need to connect PVM CH1,CH2,CH3 and CH4 ? thank you for ypour help.

Solution Explorer Refernces Tutorial-19 Roomba No Ez-B ?

Tuesday, 19 March 2013 Good Morning EZ-SDK-C# Coders ! Microsoft Visual Studio 2012's Solution Explorer References reporting that Roomba Tutorial-19 has NO EZ-B ? What am I doing wrong ? I found these links on the EZ-Forum by D.J. Sures: By Right-Clicking and Opening Tutorial 19 - Roomba.csproj in EZ-SDK/C# Download, Roomba loaded into Visual...