Building your Ambot
- Parts:
- Also needed:
- 1x USB cable for connection to ESP during configuration
- 4x batteries
- 1 small screwdriver
- markers
- 2018 Amazing Robot Assembly Instructions
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- Skid Plate:
- Battery Pack:1
- Motors:
- Glue Motors to Battery Pack & Body
- Place motors so that “solid color” wire is “Up”: Place Blue or Green on Left; place Brown or Orange on Right.
- Works best to place a thin layer of hot glue on battery pack and body where motor will make contact, then quickly attach motor
- Attach at an angle, with axle not touching battery pack and body!
- Place the motors carefully so that they are parallel to each other and to the centerline of the bot!
- The beauty of using hot glue for this: if you mess up, carefully pry off the motor, remove the glue, then reglue it again, better!
- Glue Motors to Battery Pack & Body
- Jumper:
- Motor Controller:
- Wheels:
- ESP8266:
- Motor Wires:
- Attach Motor wires to Motor Controller:
- *** WARNING ***
The joints where the wires are connected to the motors are weak.
DO NOT put any pressure on those points.
DO NOT stress the joints by pulling the wires! - Carefully straighten a bit of the coiled wire away from the motor.
- Loosen the four screws above “A-/A+”, “B-/B+”, and “VIN/GND” a bit.
- Insert the wires from “Motor A” into A- and A+, and the wires from “Motor B” into B- and B+, and tighten the screws.
- Place the colored wire in “-” and the whited wire in “+” (it can work otherwise– you just have to adjust things in your code!)
- *** WARNING ***
- Attach Motor wires to Motor Controller:
- Battery Pack Wires:
- Attach Battery Pack wires to Motor Controller
- Using a fingernail, bare a bit more of the wire
- Insert the red wire from the battery pack to VIN and the right wire from the battery pack into GND, and tighten the screws. (See previous picture!)
- Attach Battery Pack wires to Motor Controller
- Servo:
- Attach Control Horn to Servo (centered, facing forward)
- Glue Servo to Body:
- Laser:
- Servo Wiring:
- Attach Servo wires to Motor Controller Pin 5 (Orange = D, Red = V, Brown = Ground.) Some motor controllers have the pins in a different order; the laser wires can be carefully removed and reordered from the connector.
- Attach Servo wires to Motor Controller Pin 5 (Orange = D, Red = V, Brown = Ground.) Some motor controllers have the pins in a different order; the laser wires can be carefully removed and reordered from the connector.
- Laser Wiring:
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