Rover 5: encoder speed control
I’ve dusted of my Dagu Rover 5 🙂 While I’ve had my Rover 5 for almost 2 years I’ve never really used the encoders. Unfortunately my Rover 5 was delivered with an encoder that didn’t work right. So I decided to have a look at it and try to fix it. It turned out to […]
Adding encoders to those cheap yellow motors
My little Ebay bot is powered by 2 cheap DC geared motors. These yellow geared DC motors are very popular. Lots of cheap robot kits use them. I bought mine on Ebay and used double sided tape to stick them to the chassis of the robot. I had one annoying problem with the cheapo motors. […]