Posted: Mar 08, 2020 1:02 pm
If I can lay hands on a wheelchair all I will use are the geared brushed motors, and maybe the pivoting front wheels.
I hadn’t looked into the Ardumower, and the wire following is great. Not near so complex as remote control in either software or hardware. Box cutter blades might work well.
I considered using big stepping motors for this project, and I could write a program to map the lawn and keep track of the mower position using a scheme similar to a CNC plotter. Steppers that big are stupid expensive, and I might be able to do the same thing with encoders on the DC motors. I might try this, eventually.
RS
I hadn’t looked into the Ardumower, and the wire following is great. Not near so complex as remote control in either software or hardware. Box cutter blades might work well.
I considered using big stepping motors for this project, and I could write a program to map the lawn and keep track of the mower position using a scheme similar to a CNC plotter. Steppers that big are stupid expensive, and I might be able to do the same thing with encoders on the DC motors. I might try this, eventually.
RS