Drive Five - 5 DC motors / Servos high power 50Amps each. Serial Commands

Regular price: $210.00
Sale price: $210.00
Unit price: per

Board Only

Quantity must be 1 or more

Features :

Turn DC motors into Servos! (simply by adding feedback Potentiometer or encoder)

Power 5 DC motors up to 50 Amps each (around 10kW of control)
Each motor acts completely independently, yet info about position and status is all under one controller.
Single battery source reduces wiring.
Works as an intelligent slave to Raspberry Pi, Mac, PC, Beagle, etc.
USB connection (virtual COM port)
Text based serial control
simple terminal app will 'start the engines'

Specs, Setup & Tutorials:

See : http://beyond-kinetics.com/store/drive_five.php

Video in action:

Building a bigger robot? More motors means more movements. More power means moving a step beyond toys. Means more usefull real-world applications. We think you'll be pleased by the ease of use, professional quality, and durable connections that don't easily short out. The coordination of driving 5 motors on a single board with encoders, and limit switches will get your upsized project running in no time.

Program in any language - or just open terminal application such as hyperterminal, or screen - send simple commands to the serial port. The controller accesses each motor by a designated letter: v,w,x,y,z. The command:

"pwm v0.75 x0.25;" will set motor v to 75% power and motor x to 25% "stop" will stop all motors.

The software has a robot mode which designates motors V and W as a differential wheels system. You can enter the wheel diameter, and distance separating the wheels and calculations for spinning, curves and turns are internally calculated: "spin 120 degrees" "forward 2 meters" "turn right" "curve right radius=6" English like commands make things straight forward and clear.

Open source demo code is available for Raspberry Pi, this puts a PS3 game controller in charge of it all, or use the touch screen app with sliders.

Sign up to the beyond-kinetics website and the commands can be sent over the internet to your home RPI for an internet remote controlled robot.