Robot Building for Beginners, Third Edition
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD If you want to try to determine the best value for your white LEDs, set up the headlight portion of ...
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD Wow! 96000 W is much greater than the book’s default 150 W. Remember, this proposed change is to ha ...
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD Looking at the end results, there are a couple of other factors that make printed circuit boards be ...
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD Placing Components with a Helping Hand Place the board on a Helping Hand tool (see Figure 23-4). ...
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD All of the Molex connector headers are located at the rear of the board. This makes sense since all ...
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD Notice the notch on one side of the DIP (dual inline package) socket. This corresponds to the notch ...
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD I prefer clear silicone adhesive for gluing components to circuit boards (see Figure 23-8). Many ad ...
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD However, with long leads or nearby components, sometimes you can bend a lead enough to reach the le ...
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD Loop some bare wire starting at the positive pin on the Molex header that receives power from the ...
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD Now, whenever a module circuit needs access to positive power, simply solder a wire to the bare wi ...
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD Repeat steps 18 and 19 for the other end of the wire. Slowly, but surely, make your way through ea ...
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD Cleaning the Board Depending on the flux in the solder you used, it may need to be cleaned from the ...
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD The other pin of the power switch’s Molex connector should be wired to the positive voltage bus. Do ...
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD Turn on the multimeter. Toggle the robot’s power switch back and forth. In one direction, the resi ...
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD Your meter may give slightly different readings, but there should be a noticeable change from the r ...
CHAPTER 24 Body Building A robot’s body provides a framework to which you can attach various components and circuit boards. The ...
CHAPTER 24 ■ BODY BUILDING When you have a sense of the weight requirements and dimensions, the robot body’s characteristics are ...
CHAPTER 24 ■ BODY BUILDING Origami Helper—Bending Paper Before Bending Metal Here’s a trick that works well for brackets, cowls, ...
CHAPTER 24 ■ BODY BUILDING Printing in 3D A revolutionary way of hobbyist prototyping is to design a robot body in a 3D CAD (thr ...
CHAPTER 24 ■ BODY BUILDING At some point, the motors and sensors for Wavy were serendipitously sitting almost in perfect robot p ...
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