Thursday Feb. 18th, 2016
Long day of work today. Not too much time to tinker.
I did manage to take the motor controller kit down to the robot shop and solder up the board so that I can test a little this weekend to see how it works.
The board is made by Adafruit, Ind. and they usually have pretty high quality items for my projects so I order from them when I can. This board will handle 2 steppers as long as they are 1.5 amps per phase or lower. I do not have the specs on the motor in the Hero Jr. so I am going to test it and see if I get a good result or not. I know it was powered by a 12 Volt battery and so I will have to have a 12 Volt and 6 Volt system in the robot to keep everything working properly. Good thing there is plenty of room in the bot for batteries!
I will have to write a little code this weekend and see how the motors work. I will post the code as I move along and that way I can keep track of the functions as I go along.
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