Arduino and motor Shield help

[rainman2002z]

Hi i am in the intial starting blocks of building joyrider and was looking at arduino r3 and motor shield to run wiper motors, i have very very limited pcb build knowledge so looking for something that not to expensive to do the electronics .

Mechanics i have under control but need help if anyone got arduino working with xsim and the like

Much appricate any help

( btw first post so bare with me )

[motiondave]

Bobbuilt was looking at this at one stage.
The main issue was code sorting with Arduino I think.

Bob, correct me please.

[rainman2002z]

Ok thanks for replies think will do some more home work and invest some time in jrk method But if i get anywhere i will post results

[sirnoname]

For the next three monthes this will be done:
2x http://www.ebay.de/itm/221077443576
1x http://www.ebay.de/itm/ATMEGA328P-ATMEG ... 0921328046

The PID libraries of this controler are updatet in the last month to the third version. You can trust that this libs are well designed. The H-Bridge seems to be very idiot save but you can also connect others. The firmware will be autodetected by X-Sim.

Count together the money and what you get

[sirnoname]

Yes you can if you have the below setup.
The hardware will arrive in the next 4 weeks and up to this I write the firmware.
So the first motion will be available after about 1 month.
As HW you need a wiper motor or similar and a high precision linear pot as slider version, not round pot. All other test results without this minimum HW are not accepted especially if your pot is not using the full travel way in your setup.

[tronicgr]

Doing this is not that hard to write but PID is alittle hard for me to pickup with devoting some real time to look at it properly.
I have used the Sparkfun Moster Moto shield on the Ard but it really need a quicker way to recieve the data, have some ideas from tronicgr dashboard.
So dont be discoarged theres quite a few guys around here with some Ard programming experience.

So what are you planning, Im insterested

In arduino dashboard I made, I had to sacrifice some speed and add some delays here and there. And the update delay in the USO was atleast 10ms... Anything less than that, the arduino is reseting! Can't get reliable motion out of it without rewriting the serial communications!

Thanos

[tronicgr]

Yes you can if you have the below setup.
The hardware will arrive in the next 4 weeks and up to this I write the firmware.
So the first motion will be available after about 1 month.
As HW you need a wiper motor or similar and a high precision linear pot as slider version, not round pot. All other test results without this minimum HW are not accepted especially if your pot is not using the full travel way in your setup.

Hi Martin,

Very Good!! You know more about C programming than anyone else and probably the most capable to make something good from arduinos! I'm waiting to hear some benchmarks about it!!

Best Regards,
Thanos

[sirnoname]

Not really, it is a copy of a existing project to work against all the posts of arduino requests.
The result is open and must be compared with your work.
I try to get a free arduino and H-Bridge to you if the basics are working

[rainman2002z]

Hi all thanks for all comments have also been looking into k8055 but unsure best motor controller or even if k8055 is out dated ,.. I agree jrks are prob best for newbie ( thats me ) being a family man cost always a struggle so hence cheap option

Is prob with adruino option down to the response timing and coding ??

Kids even helping with build

[motiondave]

JRKS may cost a bit, $99 us each, but the simplicity of setting up is far worth it. I originally looked at K8055 myself , but after reading several LOOOONNNGGG threads about them, I was pointed towards the JRK and , as bobbuilt says, they are easy to set up.
Granted they are only 12v though.