Elf – 2WD Pi Robot

Building Elf

The Magician chassis comes with assembly diagrams, so I do not need to cover assembling the robot chassis in this article.

You need to solder a black wire, and a green wire, to each of the two motors. You can always change the direction at the screw terminals for each motor on the motor driver board.

The previous images show where I mounted my Robo Pi and Raspberry pi, you can of course mount them anywhere on the chassis that you like.

Before we can wire up the motor controller and ultrasonic range sensor, I will describe the RoboPi connectors we will use.

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As you can see on the photo above, each of the servo pins has a corresponding current limiting resistor and a pin in a female socket in a straight line.

The sensor servo style pins had to be offset from their corresponding resistors and female pins due to the mounting hole needed for the Raspberry Pi, but are in the same order as the sensor pins.

Each of the ten pin sockets also has a GND (closest to the last resistor on the longer side of the header) and a 3v3 power pin (furthest from the current limiting resistor).

Servo Pin Functions

For Servo1 .. Servo8  svt2 selects between 5V and VBat for the VCC pin

For Servo9 .. Servo16  svt3 selects between 5V and VBat for the VCC pin

For each Servo pin Function
Female Header pin 3.3V signal
Resistor current limiter for 5v
Servo SIG pin 5V input/output
Servo VCC pin 5V/VBat power
Servo GND pin Ground

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Sensor Pin Functions

For Sensor1 .. Sensor8  VCC is 5V (cannot use VBat)

For each Sensor pin Function
Female Header pin 3.3V signal
Resistor current limiter for 5v
Servo SIG pin 5V input/output
Servo VCC pin 5V power
Servo GND pin Ground

Analog Input pins

Analog input pin Function
Servo SIG pin 0-5V analog input
Servo VCC pin 5V power
Servo GND pin Ground

 

Article Index

  1. Meet Elf
  2. Power supply & Development
  3. Building Elf: RoboPi, Servos, Sensors, Analog In
  4. Connecting the Motor Controller & Range Sensor, Sample Code & more
  5. Adding a Raspberry Pi Camera to Elf
  6. Installing & Using MJPG-Streamer
  7. Raspberry Pi Camera h.264 Streaming from Elf

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