How to build the dagu rover 5 chassis with arduino

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Dear: Jeremy

I am building the dagu rover 5 chassis and I need your help. See I am trying to build a PCB for the dagu rover 5 chassis and I am running into a few problems. You see I looked at the dagu rover 5 datasheet and I am having trouble understanding it. I am really finding it broad and difficult to read due to my lack of engineering experience. Can you please help me because I can't figure out which wire goes to where and how due the encoders work. You can see the datasheet right here. Thank you.

From Noah

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10336

http://dlnmh9ip6v2uc.cloudfront.net/datasheets/Robotics/RP6%20motor%20TFK280SC-21138-45.pdf

nschreiber0813 · Accepted Answer

Dear: Element 14

I liked to say first of all thank you for not responding to my post I actually figured out this problem on my own. Next thing you should know is that there are actually no tutorials on the internet for how to wire the rover 5 chassis to a homemade PCB. So anyways with hard endearing work I took apart my chassis and realized the brand of the encoder and found one greatly similar to it off the internet. Then you may be wondering what do all the wires mean. First of all there are four wires, red, black, yellow, and white. The white wire is channel A and the yellow wire is channel B. I am still not getting exactly how they work but I figured out that part. If you have and questions about my sources check the links bellow and thank you.

From: Noah

Rotary encoder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

US Digital | Products » E5 Optical Kit Encoder

How to use a quadrature encoder | Let's Make Robots!

Robert Peter Oakes · Answer

I am glad you figured it out, thats always the best way to learn

to help, you may find this interesting too Arduino Playground - RotaryEncoders

these are actually switches that are great as a digital replacement for a pot and ADC on arduino etc. the bet thing is they use the same encoding methods you have linked in above so it can help you figureout the best way to read yours.

Hope it is usefull

Peter

How to build the dagu rover 5 chassis with arduino

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