Build Instructions

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• 1

  Mechanics: Motors

  Before installing the motors, I suggest filling the gap between motors and hall sensor board with something soft and dielectric, like silicon or rubber, because the board is only held by 2 fragile terminals that will eventually break off due to mechanical stress

• 2

  Electronics: replacing motor's wires, fitting them with connectors that match distribution board.

  The wire that comes with motors was way too short, so I replaced it with the longer one, replacing the flimsy 6-pin connector with separate connector for power (motor wires) and signals (encoder wires).

  • Crop off the existing wires first. To see which color corresponds to which wire, see table on motor's product page.

  • We are going to separate signal and power lines on this motor. This

  is actually the best practice in electronics engineering because it minimizes crosstalk between them. Solder a longer wire to red and black wires and insulate them with heat shrink.

  • Let's lengthen the encoder's wires now. There's 4 wires total, 2 of

  them signal and 2 power wires. Now, which insanely popular cable fits the bill? USB - everyone these days has at least one in their house! Butcher any cable you don't want for perfect pieces of 4-wire cable.

  • The opposite ends of motor's cables will need wire-to-board connectors.

  That's what the result should look like:

• 3

  Mechanics: assemble the robot base

  As the end result you're supposed to get a wheeled platform that will look like this:

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