connecting Motors to motor drivers

April 22, 2024, 07:58

ifuckedurwife

Hi all, so i am working on a little project which involves a robot chassis that comes with 4 wheels and motors.The name of the chassis is called Robot Chassis Kit NP and here is direct link for you to see https://thepihut.com/products/robot-cha ... 1900217539. I am very new to robotics and raspberry pi in general so i did struggle a lot.The motor drivers i am using is called the Pololu DRV8835 Dual Motor Driver Kit for Raspberry Pi. https://thepihut.com/products/pololu-dr ... 4113612995. I bought two of them because i was told i needed two run all four wheels, however, from this point i faced lot of issues, as i didn't realise i wouldn't have to solder parts like the female header and terminal headers which was long and difficult because i didn't know how to solder,but managed to.The real issue is the actually connecting the motor drivers to the motors, the motors come with this JST connector with this white paper clip but i didnt know or understand how this would fit into the blue terminals shown in the video demo, i then cut the paper clip of the JST connector like this.https://imgur.com/a/qjcZqGL i couldn't show actual image because it was saying it was too large, but as u can see i cut it of.I connected my motor drive to the grove base hat for raspberry pi https://thepihut.com/products/grove-bas ... 0299200707 to my raspberry pi 4b model, like this i'm not even if this correctly setup but here.https://imgur.com/a/omPlJ9h . If anyone could give me any tips, suggestions or advice on how to correctly set this up, id really appreciate it as i have struggled