yes 
many thanks techb. Now I only need to get one of these rotatory encoders. But it seems like those are exactly what I was looking for. I already know the page you posted. Its awesome I just started out with it so mine is pretty, pretty basic at the moment. Will post some pictures or maybe a video as soon as there is something to see.. lol.
Do what you need to. And you don't know how happy I am to see something like this here. We need more hardware stuff, and I even have a few tuts lined up If I would ever post them. Arduino is good for intro level stuff, but RBA needs the other. The other being embedded systems.
Don't get wooed by Arduino, in the end it is just a boot loader, and making thing easy. Behind that "Arduino" is an Atmega 328 AVR waiting for you. Waiting for you to learn clock cycles, <- yes they are desperately important, code your own and learn why that crystal is there to support such things.
We/you are stepping into how and why a processor works, this simple 8bit core can "really" show you why a stack over flow is so important, or why we preach memory management [at least me]. I WANT you to learn the whys and hows it happens.
But I am doing exactly, what my wife hates me for though. Making her/you learn. What the diff here is, I have a feeling you want to know. You want to understand what happens in the digital world, cause that's the only world that you or I or anyone here can relate to.
I am not a psychologist, and even in this thread evaluating why I married her...
But you wanna know about embedded systems, there it is, Arduino is overrated, it "Arduino" is like python, treat it as a gateway if you really want to know things. It is easy, it is something noobs or such can get into. BUT, just like python, you need to know how it works, when and where to use it.
You can and will eventually know what I am talking about if you go down this road. Just ask PORTA and PORTB.
Arduino is easy, the question I ask (drunken or not), do you want to know? Easy or what it was supposed to be?
Again sorry for this, I am drunk and have seen things in this embedded world and am at a cross roads. I know and have done things the hard way, and have done things the easy. I will admit the easy has lead me into the hard and have been learning since. I....
Do the Arduino thing until you want to know and learn MORE, I am here to show and teach, not discriminate. Drunkin speeches or not, you are a friend RBA and I will try and guide. But when it comes to config a Cisco router or advice on network topology, I will be the dog begging
PM me or put it here, I will help in this embedded world you want to endure. Only the best for a friend.Again, drunken posts are the best right?Going back to the matter at hand {ahem}You will need two encoders one for each motor. A zero point turn radius is ideal for a two wheel bot. The Arduino you have should handle the bot okay. The next logical step in this project is PID. PID is usually reserved for line following things, but PID might be where you *could* go next with the code of things.
If hardware is more your style, then you could go with more of a B.E.A.M. approach and have feelers or antennas signaling the motors and such. But, thing are up to the person at hand. Just let me know where you wanna take it and I'll help.
