Final Electronics Configuration

I just finished correcting the configuration of the electronic components for our scale model.

I am very glad that it worked out! The motor accelerates when we turn the potentiometer and comes back to a stop when the “pot-meter” returns to “position zero”.

emoped-20090526-Electonics Test 01 from Henrique Monnerat on Vimeo.

Link to video

I am quite curious to what will happen when we start using big motors which we will actually be using in the future. Can we develop an open source controller for electric motors? Are there are people developing something like that??

It is probably wiser to use one of the existing controllers like the Alltrax Controllers but I would be quite curious to understand what makes up a robust motor controller.

Next Steps: Design the Laser Cut scale frame to contain all components (battery, pot-meter, motor and Board)

Tags: alltrax, Controller, test, velleman, video

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