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08-02-2007, 14:31

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Re: pic: Vex + Roomba = Voomba

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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

How are you driving the motors?

If you had a working roomba, this would be a pretty easy way to drive it. Just pass the inputs from the controller through the serial port to the roomba.

Basically I opened up four motor modules and took out the "speed controllers" and then took the leads from the existing motors on the roomba and soldered them to the servo boards, and pluged them straight into the microcontroller.

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