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6-Wheel Rover Project

6-Wheel Rover – Introduction

Welcome to my newest adventure, the design, construction, and testing of a robot that can go beyond my house and explore the great outdoors! This is a collection of documents, some of them short, some of them long, where I

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6-Wheel Rover – Rover Base – Not wild about the Wild Thumper Chassis

Let’s start from the ground up, shall we? I took the easy route and bought a premade 6-wheel robot chassis. I would, however, urge you to think about building your own, or at least purchasing a different model. While my

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6-Wheel Rover – Providing Power with Voltage Regulators

If you’ve followed along so far, you already know that the robot electronics are all powered using a single 11.4-volt LiPo battery, mounted on the base unit.  And you also know that the output of that battery is fed to

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6-Wheel Rover – 11.4-Volt Battery Connections

There are two LiPo batteries powering the robot. We have already looked at the motor controller and its associated parts and wiring, including the 7.4-volt 2-cell LiPo battery, used to power the motor and ESCs. Now let’s take a look

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6-Wheel Rover – ESCs and Motor Wiring

Let’s take a look at how we are controlling the six motors in the rover chassis. Motor Arrangement My 6-wheeled outdoor robot rover is driven by six brushed DC motors. These motors are wired in parallel, three on each side

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