How to Assemble the DFRobot Pirate 4WD Mobile Platform
This video walks through assembling the popular DFRobot Pirate.
It focuses mostly on what the instruction manual leaves out, which I hope will save you some time!
You can get the instruction manual at the link here.
Here is the code that I used to get all motors moving in the same direction:
//Using the Adafruit library to move 4 DC motors //in one direction on the DFRobot 4WD Mobile Platform //We need the Adafruit Library. //There are two versions, this was written for the first version of the library #include // Create Motor objects and assign them to the correct motor termnials AF_DCMotor motor_Back_L(1); AF_DCMotor motor_Back_R(2); AF_DCMotor motor_Front_R(3); AF_DCMotor motor_Front_L(4); void setup() { //We can asjust the speed for the motors here //the range is 0 to 255 motor_Front_R.setSpeed(200); motor_Front_L.setSpeed(200); motor_Back_R.setSpeed(200); motor_Back_L.setSpeed(200); }//close setup void loop() { //run each motor in the forward direction motor_Front_R.run(FORWARD); motor_Front_L.run(FORWARD); motor_Back_R.run(FORWARD); motor_Back_L.run(FORWARD); }//close loop
Good stuff. Thanks.
Thanks for watching.
Would you happen to have a c code for this? I’m using the same robot platform except with a TI microcontroller. Hence the need for a c code, not an arduino one. Thank you!
Hi Nshah, no I don’t have the C code for this – sorry I can’t be of more help.