Name: FeeTech FT-MC-002-SMC Arduino Vehicle Platform - Code and Assembly
Uploaded: 2020-04-06T08:41:50.000Z
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So in this video, I want to do an overview of the fee tech FT.

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So this is the vehicle platform that I use for my personal projects.

I've purchased a number of them over the years, and I like these little vehicle platforms for a number of reasons.

The first reason I like it is the price point of vehicle platform.

Use generally should only cost you 17 to $20.

Now I do so see some unscrupulous vendors out there trying to sell this thing for $80.

Ah, low price point for this particular platform is $17.

A reasonable price point is $20 depending If you need one or not.

I might spend $25 on one of these things, but realistically, anything over than that and then it gets to be a bit ridiculous.

I really like that on then when you actually get the platform, things that I like is the overall size of the platform.

So the cool part is, is you have this upper deck, so you actually have two decks.

You can put your Arduino board whatever we know board that you're going to use.

And then on the lower deck, you can put sensors.

So if I'm using this, I just shove the battery pack under there, so it gives you a lot of room on one of things that will show you over the work bank.

Had it really, like is the motor controller for this particular platform is very small.

Now, if you're looking to create vehicles with Arduino, generally you're either going to use a motor module or a motor shield.

And with both of those devices, those devices are rather large.

The nice thing about this is this is rather small.

Uh, you know, I don't know, slightly bigger than 1/4.

So if you're going to make a small vehicle, that something nice to have, because again, you don't just don't need that much space in order to be able to control your motors.

So this is basically the overall what this vehicle platform looks like once you put it together.

Now, when you purchase it, when you purchase it, you're just gonna get a little box in the mail that looks like this.

You're gonna open it up, and then you're gonna get a lot of components in here.

And then again, it's one of those things that all these individual components costs a little bit of money.

So getting them all together, I think you save a couple of ducks again.

You're probably getting getting a good deal on this, but it comes with two motors s o.

The important thing with this is that these air to standard motor so they're not continuous servo motors.

That might be a little confusing there just to standard motors.

You get the wheels again when you go out there to to to buy stuff around, we know vehicles.

Just because you bythe motors doesn't mean you get the wheels with these you get, you get the wheels and you get the tires.

You get the frame, you get the frame, obviously, and then you get the motor controller.

And what's cool about this motor controller One.

As you can see, it's relatively small, but to basically, it allows you to interact with your electric motors as if they're continuous servo motors.

Uh, that makes it a little bit easier to control things like speed.

So when you're moving this, though, the wheels forward or when you're trying to do more complicated maneuvers with your vehicle being able to control the wheels as if they're continuous servo motors can can actually make life a little bit easier.

If you buy this when you're going to controlling the motors with this motor controller, you're going to control them using functions for servo motors, not for standard motors.

So that's just one of those things to keep in mind so that let's go over the work.

Vic, I'll show you a little bit of the difference between this motor controller and motor module and a shield, and I'll show you some of the other things that I like about this particular platform.

So here's a little bit of a comparison between the feet tech to to channel motor controller and motor module and a motor shield again.

When you're looking to create a vehicle most of time are looking to try to make the vehicle as small and light.

And what I really like about this little motor controller is you can see how small it is in comparison to the other ways that you may control motors.

So this is what you generally would use in order control motor.

And as you can see, it's just a lot larger than this little SMC is.

So again, if you're gonna put you know, this controller on a vehicle just very easy to kind of screw this in some kind of out of the way place, where is it you're gonna have a full fledged motor module.

You gotta figure out, like, literally where you going to put something in that size That's important, especially if you're looking at something like if you're going to use this platform.

So this is from DF Robot, and this is a rather small platform.

So again, what you wanted things to be thinking about with your vehicle platforms is literally from a space perspective.

Put things like the sensors and controllers.

Having a small little controller like this can simply be very valuable to have in your tool bag, even if you're not using feet texts actual frame for for dealing with the vehicle s.

So the motor shield obviously has a lot more functionality than the little to channel comptroller does.

It goes on top of the art we know board, and so when you're looking at size constraints, that could be a bit of a problem.

So this is what we're looking at when we're looking at the different sizes of the ways that you can control motor with an Arduino.

So now that we've seen the difference in size is between the different types of ways that you can control a vehicle platform.

Let's actually d'oh and see how this is all wired up.

If we're going to be creating our own Lovie a platform.

All I've done is I've coated to go forward, to go back to turn left and turn right.

So there's no sensor is currently on here.

This is this basically right now, I could just automatically go forward, back left, right.

There is no other intelligence or no other sensors to it.

So we're gonna do is we're gonna take a look down at the bottom of this.

And so this is how the controller is normally connected to this particular frame s so you haven't nice and screwed down here again.

You don't have to worry about it once you've connected it now on the back of it.

So on the back of it, when you're taking a look, you see the two problems back there that's what's going to connect to the motors.

The important thing is is when you plug the motors in that they should be opposite.

So you can see how the little copper connectors here and then you see just the black here, so that's important, understand?

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