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scavanged pagermotors from toy car

maneuver — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:45:12 -0400

Here is a quick walk-through on how to get your hands on a really cheap alternative to the GM10s. The motors you get here are not even nearly as cool as the GM10s, but you don't feel bad when you fry them.

Continuously Rotating Servo

Scheda — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:33:58 -0400

I just found this on HobbyEngineering.com and thought you might like it. I've read a few tutorials on how servo's can be made to rotate indefinately, and rather than doing that work, why not spend the extra $3 and get one already made that way?

So, here's a link and the description to one.

http://www.hobbyengineering.com/H1429.html

Pololu Dual Serial Motor Controller

TofuRobot — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:26:34 -0400

The pololu dual serial controller is a great component to controll more than 1 motor. It uses a single seraial cable from a microcontroller to control the motors. I am still trying to figure out how to crack the serial code for it. This is the connection for 2 motors:

It's hard for me as this is the first time programming for me.

You can see the programming rule by downloading the attachment and scrolling down to configuring and useing the motor controller.

realy cool tracks with geared motors and already mounted on wood!

Thu, 15 May 2008 03:24:53 -0400

very good little tracks whitch already come mounted with geard motors

http://www.superdroidrobots.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=484&catid=55

Really cool tracks!

Wed, 14 May 2008 12:23:18 -0400

these tracks are realy good and are used for the ziltoid the omnisect and my first bot (realy my robot)

this is the link:

http://www.superdroidrobots.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=409&catid=55

the web bit aint working

Cool and easy belt tracks / treads

fritsl — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:23:23 -0400

Nice litle set of belt-tracks. Kinda cute!

http://www.solarbotics.com/products/gmtpkg/

Price is for a pair!

You will need to sort out how to mount the 2 axels that are not on the motor, but it can be done quite easily: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/112

TAMIYA twin-motor gearbox

fritsl — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:57:28 -0400

This is a very nice little package. You have to assamble yourself, and there are 3 ways.

You want to assamble in "C"-mode, ratio 203:1

The A & B setups, 58:1 are really fun because they are fast etc.. until you try to make your robot use it. It is simply not strong enough for the fast-changing pulses etc from a PIC-controller, it is useless because it takes so much time to accelerate, and many setups will not ever get up to speed at all..

Wheels and motor - miniature, fast and funny

fritsl — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:56:45 -0500

i bought in to this deal - and it really is the most funny set of motor & wheel I have encountered so far:

http://www.solarbotics.com/products/gm10w_deal/

Cool part is that they can also be used instead of a servo, and to swing drumsticks, and in little fast and light weight but strong robots