Overview - oddWires Arduino Robotics Kit With Motor Shield Manual

Overview

The oddWires Robotics Kit for Arduino with Motor Shield is designed to be built and used by individuals,
educational institutions and anyone who wants to learn about robotics. It offers fantastic value for money
including a complete, extensible chassis with an Arduino Uno to control and manage the robot.
If you want the version where you do more with LEDs, MOSFETs and so on see the oddWires Robotics
Kit for Arduino. In that version you build a robot with the same chassis, but you develop a motor control
board from a prototype board.
The robot itself consists of a chassis onto which you will mount an Arduino Uno together with a stackable
Arduino motor shield that comes assembled. You do need to solder some pin headers to the board. This
shield has terminals for the two motors, a terminal for the servo and a terminal for the 6V battery holder
that will supply the power for the motors, the servo and the Arduino Uno. The connections from the
ultrasonic distance sensor will be made to pins on the motor shield.
Once the motor shield is functioning, you can then add a servo-mounted ultrasonic distance sensor to
enable the robot to maneuver using its own logic.
Sketches are supplied at several levels from introductory to a complete robot controller. All of these sketches
are extensible and you can add all sorts of additional sensors and enhance the initial robot behavior.
oddWires Robotics Kits include a genuine Arduino Uno R3
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oddWires Arduino Robotics Kit