Monday 27 October 2014

Some Updates...




Soldering...
Made a mistake with this. The stiffness of the wires are much more
 than that of the metal on the motor...it broke off later.

The motors and joystick have all been soldered. However I am currently too busy to work on them. Will try to wrap them up in December.

Tachometer check....

This was damaged...maybe during soldering. I re-soldered to try and realign everything.
Searched online and realized I should have used the breadboard while soldering to
align everything.

Drew with a black marker initially but that did not work so had
to use black tape everywhere.

Tachometer #1 reading the diskbrake...

#2 reading the motor.
Used some scrap metal to hold it in place.

Tested my tachometer code on the older car. The rpm seemed consistent for the motor but the wheel one was jumping wildly. Later I realized it was because the holes on the disk brake are very random.