{"id":1713,"date":"2015-05-03T08:58:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T12:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2015-05-09T11:26:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T15:26:04","slug":"mini-bot-build-part-1-the-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/mini-bot-build-part-1-the-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-bot Build Part 1 &#8211; The Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the request of several viewers I&#8217;m launching a Mini-bot project this week. The goal of this project is to provide a basic guide on how to go about building a small robot from scratch. There are many sources for parts for a robot and for this one I chose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pololu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pololu<\/a>. They offer parts as well as robot kits at reasonable prices. <\/p>\n<p>For this project I chose the smallest components I could find. The micro gear motors are an amazing piece of hardware. It&#8217;s incredible that there is a planetary gear transmission inside the 5mm diameter housing! The micro controller I chose is about the size of a postage stamp and the motor driver board isn&#8217;t much bigger. This allows for a final assembly that will fit on a small perfboard. <\/p>\n<p>In part 2 I&#8217;ll post a wiring diagram and a parts list.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on hackin!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cEL4YIftSnw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the request of several viewers I&#8217;m launching a Mini-bot project this week. The goal of this project is to provide a basic guide on how to go about building a small robot from scratch. There are many sources for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/mini-bot-build-part-1-the-platform\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}