Robot Building for Beginners, Third Edition

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING Protecting the Motor Terminals with Heat-Shrink Tubing You should cover the motor terminal ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING Slide one of the black tubes over the soldered black wire on the negative motor terminal. ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING Repeat the process for the other motor. Unplug the hair dryer or heat gun. Set it somepla ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING A Molex KK connector consists of three parts (see Figure 22-13). First, there’s a male hea ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING A tool is necessary to force the metal terminal to wrap around and hold the wire for attac ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING Figure 22-15. Wire inserted into terminal with plastic insulation in end flaps and bare wi ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING Gently squeeze the crimp tool handles, causing the flaps to be curved over the stripped p ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING Repeat the process to add terminals to all four wires on the pair of motors. Insert the t ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING Insert the remaining wired terminals into their housings. Facing the windows in the hous ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING Putting Together the Line-Following Switch The line-following switch was the only part of ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING Preparing and Attaching the Switch Wires Like the motors, the switch terminals need to hav ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING Loop the yellow wire through the eyelet in the other center terminal, twist the wire toge ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING Got it? You have two red wires, one long and one short, connecting to the same terminal. ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING You can test the arrangement by hooking a multimeter to either center wire and testing the ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING Examining the Tube LED Circuit Schematic You can skip the tube-glowing circuit if you want ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING Building the Tube LED Circuit The resistor and LEDs chain together in a column. Considerin ...

CHAPTER 22 ■ SOLDERING AND CONNECTING Assuming you are going to mount the power switch inside of a plastic sandwich container in ...

CHAPTER 23 The Motherboard Throughout the book, you’ve slowly been building and testing a line-following circuit on a solderless ...

CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD The final line-following circuit consists of identifiable modules of circuits from prior chapters. ...

CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD The brains and LEDs modules are the brightness comparator circuit with transistors The motor modul ...