Today was the first day of building our 16IR Line Follower robot.
Chinglen and I started working on the initial development and planning of the robot. We worked on writing the first motor control code and preparing the hardware setup.
We soldered the connections for the N20 600RPM geared motors and mounted the 16IR sensor array onto the chassis. We also started planning the complete electronics layout — deciding the positions of the battery, BTS7960 motor driver, and ESP32 38-pin board to keep the design compact, balanced, and easier to wire.
The next steps will be completing the wiring, testing sensors and motors, tuning the control system, and improving the robot’s speed and stability.
This project may take around 1 month to complete because we want to properly test and optimize every part of the robot.
Hardware used:
16IR sensor array
ESP32 38-pin board
2 x BTS7960 motor driver
2 xN20 600RPM geared motors
3d PrintedCustom chassis
