- Materials
- Base Build Wiring
- Adding Time of Flight Sensors
- Adding Husky Lens
- Assembly of Base Bot
- 1. Attach Battery
- 2. Secure Motor-Driver
- 3. Attach Motor 1
- 4. Attach Motor 2
- 5. Bolt on Arduino
- 6. Add Wheels
- 7. Attach Barrel Jack
- Adding Time Of Flight Sensors to Base Bot
- Adding Husky Lens to Base Bot
- Is your bot all assembled?
Materials
This bot is best built in stages so you can understand each step along the way. So, for now, we'll focus on the basics. You can ignore the parts in the blue boxes for a bit—we'll add those later to give your bot autonomous features.
Base Build Wiring
Wiring comes first! We are connecting all of the inner-workings of our critter before we add in its frame.
It's important we get this right!
Make sure an educator looks at your wire before we start assembling.
Adding Time of Flight Sensors
Adding Husky Lens
Assembly of Base Bot
1. Attach Battery
Start by using your big zip-tie to attach your battery to your robot body. Once it’s nice and tight, clip the end short and neat.
2. Secure Motor-Driver
Attach motor-driver to robot body using 4 short bolts.
Make sure the heat sink (big tall black part) is on the curved side of the bot body and on the right side of the bot body.
3. Attach Motor 1
Use small zip-ties to secure the motor to one side of the robot body. Make sure to align the motor with the notch and hole to help it sit flat.
Add another zip-tie around the motor to make sure the it’s fully secure!
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE 2 ZIP TIES ON EACH MOTOR :)
4. Attach Motor 2
Use the same double zip-tie technique to attach the other motor to the other side of the bot body.
5. Bolt on Arduino
Move Beyond Possible board towards the curved side of the bot so all wires are coming out of the back of the body. Add on Arduino board so all 3 mounting holes align with risers on body. Use your last short bolts to connect the board to the body.
6. Add Wheels
7. Attach Barrel Jack
Look at your screw terminal barrel jack and see which side is positive and which is negative.
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU WIRE THIS CORRECTLY!!!
WIRE CONNECTED TO “+” → “VIN”
WIRE CONNECTED TO “-” → “GND”
CHECK WITH AN EDUCATOR THAT YOUR WIRING IS CORRECT BEFORE YOU PLUG IN YOUR BATTERY
Adding Time Of Flight Sensors to Base Bot
Adding Husky Lens to Base Bot
Is your bot all assembled?
Hop on over to this page and learn more about Husky Lens!
Husky Lens Computer Vision