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Last weekend I started building the Velleman K8004 DC to pulse Width Modulator which will act as the speed controller board for the throttle and the electric motor for the first test model. It’s my first soldered circuit board! I am very happy with =) It was easy an fun to do it, kind of “meditational” also. My soldering skills dated back to 1995 when I was building R/C Cars with my Grand father…so before starting the soldering I watched this really helpful film from the Make guys, a video tutorial on soldering, so good!

Finished circuit board with external potentiometer for the throttle

My goal is to use Arduino for controlling of the motor, to stay open source, but I still don’t know much about it so I decided to start with the Velleman board instead. I don’t know if it functions yet, but I just wanted to post the pictures of the process here, more updates soon.

Tags: Arduino, Controller, velleman

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