Even Cheapo-er
Posted May 15, 2008 by Ash
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If you are struggling future robot millionaire and you are looking to get into robot building then
- You have come to the right place
- You should check out Cheapo or Simple Bot 0.1
Simple Bot, built by Batist on Coded.be is another really simple bot that you can get up and running in no time at all.
Unlike Cheapo it seems to use a DC motor gearbox with two motors (instead of the servos I used in Cheapo). Because of this it uses a H-Bridge motor driver chip to control the motors (bought from the always awesome Sparkfun of course).
I found another nice metal robot base at
http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=RSK&Nav1=Products&Nav2=Mechatronics .
They also have a very nice line of add-on modules featuring a probably-proprietary 6-wire bus that switches both digital and analog around your robot’s network.