6. Building a Basic Robot - roverwing/RoverWingLibrary GitHub Wiki

What you will need:

  • 2 DC motors
  • A battery between 7 and 14v
  • 1 Roverwing
  • 1 Feather micro controller
  • A chassis to build the robot on

Step 1

Take your feather micro controller and place it into your Roverwing.

Step 2

Take your assembled Roverwing and Featherboard and attach the motors as shown in the two motor ports. If your motors have encoders you can also connect those to the encoder ports located next to each motor port.

Step 3

Attach your battery to the port between the two motor ports ensuring that you have connected it with the proper polarity as to not blow up the Roverwing board.

Step 4

Connect your featherboard to your computer (through the port located on your feather micro controller and not the port located on the Roverwing) and upload the Driving.ino example program to your board. After you have done this power on the board to ensure that it works properly. The motors should begin to spin.

Step 5

Once you have verified that your robot works take the chassis that you have selected and mount your electronics to it. This step may vary depending on what chassis you are using for your robot.

Step 6

Power on your robot and experiment with the code as well as add more sensors to create the robot you desire.

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