Speed Controller Design

[EricVanWyk]

Originally Posted by Geek 2.0

I've been looking at designs for speed controllers (mostly Jaguars, because I can get my hands on those schematics). Frankly, they're overpriced, and if I want to build my own robot (outside of FIRST), I'd much rather design my own (or at least make a hearty attempt).

I feel extremely comfortable with disagreeing with you on this point, but instead lets agree to ammend the statement with "for your purposes".

Originally Posted by Geek 2.0

My issue is this: By looking at the design and not knowing what signals CTRLA, CTRLB, PWMA, and PWMB are (since they're coming out of the microcontroller, I don't know what they are unless I were to have the uncompiled firmware for the Jaguar), I can't see this thing working in theory.

The firmware for the non FRC specific version is freely available for download on the RDK CD.

Originally Posted by Geek 2.0

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My laptop is broken, so I can't spend much CD time these days. I'd be happy to walk you through this when I get a replacement.