Questions tagged [wheel]
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How can I avoid twisting wires in a circuit that rotates?
I am working on a project where I used a hollow pipe whose one end has a circuit board so that the wires will go through the pipe to the other end completing the connections. That pipe has to be ...
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How to electrically brake a brushless motor
I'm sorry if this question is too stupid, unfortunately I have a very low experience with BLDC motors.
I would like to use 4 x 350W, 24VDC brushless motor hubs for my wheeled robot (they are usually ...
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Measuring a 2-pin active wheel speed sensor without having it connected to a vehicle
I'm trying to measure/test the square wave output of an active wheel speed sensor from a jeep wrangler for a project I'm working on. I do not have access to the actual vehicle just the sensor itself ...
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Scrolling wheel encoder with button push button action into wheel axis
I am looking for a wheel that you can push into as a button as well as scroll indefinitely in either direction.
Here's the exact part I am talking about. I'm not sure exactly what it is called.
The ...
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Battery free TPMS
I am doing a report about wireless TPMS, and I heard about products where the sensors in the valves do not need batteries at all (operate and transmit the data). Is that correct?? have you encountered ...
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Count car weels without using visible light (camera/laser etc) and without interaction [closed]
For this project we need to count weels of a car (if possible at all), one side only. The scenario is within the following scope:
The car is always passing in a straight line
It is cars only, so all ...
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Required velocity of each wheel in 3-wheel omni bot [closed]
I'm using a 3-wheeled omni bot which can move in any horizontal direction (example: https://www.robotshop.com/en/3wd-48mm-omni-wheel-mobile-robot.html).
Given an object velocity (velocity at which ...
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How to count bike wheel Revolution by 3-axis acceleration
I want to use MCU and BMA250E 3-Axis Acceleration for count bike wheel revolution.
and I can read the x-axis datas without vibrate.
and I want to ask how to analysis sine wave datas
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Get distance covered by a wheel using a gyroscope placed on it
I have to calculate the distance covered by a wheelchiar using data gathered from a gyroscope that was placed on one of the driving wheels.
I know the total length of the corridor we used for the ...
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Steering wheel with optical or multiturn
i have a logitech formula force feedback wheel , and i'd like to change the rotation of wheel from 180 to 900. I know that i have to change the pot, but i don't know what type of pot i should use. I'...
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Electrical Motors
We are using 24 V brushed DC motor(total 2 pieces) and VNH5019 motor driver for voiced controllable smart wheelchair. Although 2 wheels are sourced by same voltage and current; one of them fall behind,...
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Vinyl player emulation on Arduino
Say, you have an arduino uno + audio shield, a speaker and a jog-wheel (or mouse scroll-wheel).
And you want to play some audio-file tied to the movement of the wheel, just like you move vinyl disc.
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PIC18 Robot - Travelling exact distance straight using two wheel encoders problems
(EDIT: Added TMR0 & TMR1 set-up code)
I have a small robot vehicle controlled by a PIC18f4585. It has two wheels (ball bearing on the front) as well as two rotary encoders. The following ...
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Most cost-effective way of making an electronic "slot machine" with a hundred wheels?
The closest description for what I'm looking for is an electronic slot machine with a hundred wheels. Each wheel has, say, 8 faces/drawings/symbols and I need to be able to create any of the 8^100 ...
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effect of wheel diameter on line following robot [closed]
i am making a line following robot. i have the option of selecting 11cm and 4cm wheels with 1000RPM and 3000RPM respectively. I want to know the advantages and disadvantages of the options. Please ...
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Rotary encoders to ensure 2 wheel robot goes straight!
I have successfully counted the rotary encoders on the wheel of my robot so this is not a problem.
My problem is what to do with this number.
Basically, the bigger problem is that I need my robot to ...
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Spin two wheels in opposite directions with single DC motor?
I'm using a simple DC motor and the wheels from a small toy car to build a basic ping pong ball launcher.
I've got one of the wheels rotating clockwise, mounted directly on the motor's spindle, and ...
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how to count 2 wheel encoder signal?
I'm looking to a simple solution to keep the position of a robot. It has two DC motor and one wheel encoder for each. The encoder are incremental type.
I need to be able to get the current count of ...
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