New Open Source Hardware board released: BB-TB6612 Dual DC motor controller with PWM to drive small robot cars with 12V up to 1.2A motors

BB-TB6612 is dual channel DC motor controller board it is nice add on for the Robot chassis we have ROBOT-2WD-KIT , ROBOT-2WD-KIT2 , ROBOT-2WDL-KIT , ROBOT-3-WHEEL-KIT and can drive these gear motors: MG-6-120 , MG-6-48  and MG-6V-1:380

The digital logic can be from 2.7 up to 5.5V. The motor voltage can be from 2.5 up to 13.5V.

PWM, CW, CCW, brake-stop, stand-by modes are implemented.

 

Gear motors and accessories for building robot cars are in stock

We got some new toys in stock for robot builders. The MG-12V-1:100-DE and MG12V-1:380-DE are gear motors for robot cars, working at 12V with 78 RPM and 300 RPM . Both have digital encoders which give two channel feedback for the rotation speed, used for identifying the speed and rotation direction. The MG-12V-1:100 and MG-12V-1:380 are lower cost alternatives to those motors but without encoders.

These motors can be attached to a flat surface with MG-FIX.

The MG-WHEEL-43mm are rubber wheels with diameter 43mm and a width 19 mm which attach directly to MG-6V and MG-12V gear motors.

The MG-WHEEL-65mm is rubber wheel with diameter 65mm and width 25mm. It requires a special MG-COUPLER.

 

eduArdu-BotKit transforms your eduArdu in small bot

eduArdu-BotKit consist of two continual rotation servo motors, two 32mm wheels, ball wheel and converts eduArdu in small robot:

Here is small video clip of small demo how to control eduArdu robot with clap of your hands.

New Robotics and CNC products in stock

We have now in stock many new Robotics and CNC components:

KITS:

ROBOT-2WDL-KIT Robot platform with two motors with wheels and encoders

ROBOT-LINE-FOLLOW Robot platform with analogue line follower

 

Micro motors:

MOTOR-200806 12000 rpm brush motor working at 3-6VDC

MOTOR-F1607 small drone motor with fan working on 3-6VDC and speed up to 50 000 rpm

VIBRATING-MOTOR-3X8 small vibrating motor only 3×8 mm size! you can use it to build small bug robot 🙂

 

Stepper motors:

SM-17HS4023 Stepper motor for CNC XY table or 3D printer 42x42x23mm

SM-42HB34F08AB Stepper motor for CNC XY table or 3D printer 42x42x34mm

SM-5VDC-DRV Stepper motor with 1:64 gear and driver!

SM-60SL Stepper motor with 48 mm screw

Robot hand:

ROBOT-GRIP Robot hand which works together with servo motor to open and close

Gear motors:

MG-12V-M4X55 Gear motor with M4x55mm screw can be used for small CNC table or Door lock/unlock mechanism.

MG-6V-1-380 Very compact Gear motor 6VDC 30 RPM can be used for blinder open, close

CARDAN-5X8 and CARDAN-5X5 Free joint for Boat fan or blinders open/close

Linear guides:

LINEAR-GUIDE-400MM Linear slide with 400 mm length

SCREW-T8X8-300MM Trapeziodal screw with brass nut 300 mm

Shaft support:

SK8, SK10

SHF8, SHF10, SHF12

Wide range of Micro Bearings

GT2 Pulleys and Belts:

Aluminum frame corners for 20×20 , 30×30 and 40×40 profiles:

 

Strong neodymium magnets 30x10x3 and 10x10x10:

Hackaday Belgrade 2018 is this weekend 26th of May. Get ready for Retro Computing BASIC badge hacking.

This weekend 26th of May Hackaday will have their second conference in Belgrade.

You can see the program here.

The conference badge is cool retro computer running BASIC. There will be badge hacking workshop so we will get with us some PIC-KIT3s .

I will have talk about how we hacked Soldering robot with ugly programming interface with TERES-I laptop and FPGA / Sigrok and how we replaced the soldering robot brain with OLinuXino-MICRO, so now it’s ready to take CAD CNC files and use fiducials and do AOI inspection after soldering.

 

I’m going to speak at Hackaday Belgrade 26 of May.

My proposal:  Hacking soldering robot with TERES-1 DIY Open Source Hardware Laptop was just accepted!

I will speak about how we hack Soldering Robot and make it intelligent with additional camera, which makes possible use of fiducials. Making programming easy and post soldering quality check with OpenCV.

More about this event you can read (when available) on Hackaday Belgrade conference page.

New Robot Chassis in stock: ROBOT-2WD-KIT2

We have new Robot Chassis in stock! It’s with two gear motors, two aluminum plates, free castor wheel, two 60 mm wheels attached to the motors, all necessary fittings.

The assembly is very simple:

The castor wheel is attached to bottom plate:

To the gear motor is attached small aluminum plate:

then the 60 mm wheel:

Four heximal spacers are assembled to the plate with the castor wheel:

Then the two gear motors aluminum plates are fixed between upper and bottom plate:

and the chassis is ready!

Now we are thinking for possible custom control board with these features:

• Arduino like main board allowing easy re-programming
• Motor drivers
• Motor encoders which to give feed back to Arduino with photo interrupters
• LiPo Battery charger and step up converter for motor and Arduino powering
• UEXT for ESP8266 WiFi
• two sockets for Ultrasonic distance sensors on the two sides of the castor wheel
• (optional RT5350F-OLinuXino with camera)
• connectors for optional servo motors for robot hand
• UEXT second connector for attaching more sensors

Let us know if we missed something 🙂

New product in stock: Metal Robot chassis with two weels and servo motors

ROBOT-2WD-KIT is metal chassis for Robot. It comes with two servo motors, 60 mm wheels and one free wheel.

There are provisions to attach sensors and control board.

The Servo motors can be driven with LiPo battery.

Chassis dimensions are 160 x 75 mm.

HIWR – Open Source Robot made with A13-OLinuXino

Meet Hiwr an Open Source Robot with A13-OLinuXino, A13-LCD7TS , running ROS (Robot OS). The site still have no all information about the assembly but the 3D printed components are there and the different software modules are linked to GitHub.

Good job 🙂

Meet OliGoBot – robot chassis with A20-OLinuXino, WIFI and Web camera

Few days ago Dimitar Gamishev asked me to try one of our new 4 wheel Robot chassis platforms https://www.olimex.com/Products/RobotParts/Chassis/

He seems created a little monster as he put A20-OLinuXino on it with WiFi adapter and Web camera.

You can see the robot in action on this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoxdOHeTfto

The camera is streaming video via the WiFi and you can control the robot via web interface.