More Melty Beetle

Published by rich on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 05:06:30 - Filed under Robots and Electronics, Other Fun Stuff

I just had my first successful translational drift test with Melty Beetle.

It still has some problems due to (expected) calibration issues. The heading LED is off by about 120 degrees - which is really difficult to compensate for manually.

Motor, motor drivers and batteries (now 2150ma 7.4v Lipo) all stayed reasonably cool.

Once I get some issues fixed - I’ll post some video - probably in the next 24 hours.

Still have a lot of “clean up” to do - here’s the insides as they currently stand:

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