There are a few variations on the robot car chassis but for the most part they all consist of the following items: I haven’t seen many instructions for using them with the robot car chassis so in this article (and the accompanying video) I’ll give you all the information you need to put them to work.
Those disks are actually “encoder wheels” and they can be used with an opto interrupter-based sensor to measure speed and distance travelled. And I also want to use the opportunity to show you how to use those two strange black “slotted disks” that come with each of these kits. They are quite durable so your robot can survive a few crashes while you are in the testing phase.Ī few of the robotics projects that I’ll be presenting to you here at the Dronebot Workshop rely upon these types of robot car chassis so I thought it would be a good idea to show you how to put one together.They are pretty easy to assemble and modify.They are surprisingly powerful and can carry a decent payload.I’ve picked some of these kits up for less than 15 dollars. These tiny units have a lot of advantages for robotics experimenters, especially ones like myself whose expertise lies with electronics and software and not with mechanics: Many of the robotics projects that I’ve been working on lately have made use of a very common “Robot Car Chassis”.
