/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Here's babby's first project and blog. Had to learn to solder and it was a fucking mess, but everything works as it should and the car avoids obstacles now. Had an interesting issue with the thing going berserk powering everything with the AA batteries or just the 9V. Powering the arduino and the motors separately seems to have fixed it.

Next step is trying to find the gyro in my large bag of chinashit sensors and see if I can get the thing to make consistent turns. I also need to figure out a more durable solution for the wires heading to the ultrasonic sensor at the front. The wires keep breaking as it swivels. It's been pretty fun to build, all in all.