MARV Progress…
Thanks to a tooth ache, I cannot sleep due to the constant throbbing and have been working through the night for 6 hours straight….that makes it 28 hours of working on the robot since 10am on the 22nd!!
First up, MARV fully re-wired:
This is what the chassis looks like from top; the EPIA mainboard will go on top and fits perfectly with space for the HDD as well…
The completed Motor Driver, fully soldered, and two FT232R USB <> Serial breakout boards, all held on with some really heavy duty velcro (a 50 x 50mm piece can hold up 7kg!!):
The switch that will power the motors, with an in-line ’slow blow’ fuse installed. The banana post on the Hammond box is to supply the ‘logic’ a supply voltage >= 6.2VDC as a 7805 inside will regulate the input to 5VDC:
- Wiring Update…
- Completing MARV…
- MARV Attacks!
- while(1){do_thesis;}
- MARV Motor Driver V3
Had a bit of a scare today, when my ICD2 programmer simply refused to work. Just when I had given up, MPLAB uploaded new software to it and it is back to working properly...I hope! Progress is now...
I have taken MARV from a simple chassis to what it is currently in 10 days exactly, although a couple days were wasted waiting for components to arrive via the post. The project box currently looks...
LOL...!...
The subject title says it all. There really isn't much to report apart from the fact that all the hard work gone into MARV culminated into a meeting with my thesis supervisor and a simple demonstrati...
This is the CAD/CAM output obtained in gerbv, ...and the completed PCB with one motor driver 'block' soldered on... I hope to begin testing in the morning.....