Secret project – MotorPiTX motor board

I soldered together my MotorPiTX motor controller today and fitted it to the robot:

Robot with MotorPiTX board

Robot with MotorPiTX board

It’s a hell of a lot neater than my original effort, and only trails one wire. It goes forwards and backwards now too. To the left of the blue relay near the top you can see my homemade heatsink attached to the voltage regulator:

Heatsink detail

Heatsink detail

The robot in action, being driven by a Go program on the Raspberry Pi:

Next up, getting the camera working, and figuring out a better power supply/battery.

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