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Wiring the robot:
Start by plugging the rainbow cable into the eye. Pay careful attention to the colours to ensure correct function of the
eye. Thread the cable under the tilt servo an use a cable tie to hold it in place. Leave this cable tie very loose so that
the cable can move a bit if necessary.
Please note that
the brown wire
has been swapped
to the other side
The Mini Driver includes a dual motor driver that is not used for this robot. By disconnecting the jumpers we can
access the control pins. Disconnect the Jumper for D8 and connect the violet wire. This wire controls the IR LEDs on
the compound eye. Now connect the blue, green, yellow and orange wires to A2, A3, A4 and A5 as shown. These are
your analog signals from the compound eye.
Servo power selection jumper
Servo power selection jumper
Make sure the servo power selection jumper is toward
the outer edge of the PCB. This will power the leg
servos directly from the battery.
When servos are not being used this jumper can be set
to 5V allowing digital sensors to be powered from the 5V
regulator instead.
Now connect the power wires for the compound eye.
Red is +5V and brown is Gnd.
these wires are connected as shown in the photo with
the brown wire closest to the edge of the PCB.
The power pins on the analog inputs are always
connected to the 5V regulator not matter what position
the servo power jumper is in.
D8
D8
Check carefully that
Loose
cable tie
9
Red wire
connects
to Vcc
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