Day 10: (Mon Oct 4, Week 6) DC Gearmotors

Notes for 2021-10-04.

New Assignments

  1. New assignment, due in a week: applying DC motors to energy input and marble control.

Agenda

  1. In-class review of reactive marble assignment.

  2. Introduction to DC gearmotors.

  3. Introduction to H-bridge drivers.

  4. Sample circuit and code walkthrough: DC Motor Examples - Raspberry Pi Pico

  5. In-class work:

    1. preparing leads for DC motors

    2. soldering pins onto DRV8833 boards

    3. testing driver circuit and code