How to make a robot car using Havi Elements – step by step pictures & video
How to make a robot car at home? Sayani asked. And before Mansi could answer, another question came from Vatsal: How to make a robot car which I can use in school project?
Mansi had to answer both the questions now, and the answer was actually same and here it goes.
Building a robot starts with making a robot car. You can build a basic, easy robot car using Havi DIY Robotics Starter Kit and further add several functions to it. Here we are preparing a most basic robotic car that moves in forward direction, reverse direction and circles around using Havi’s DIY Robotics Starter Kit. You can change this robotic car to a line follower robot, edge avoiding robot and several others by changing Havi Elements circuit.
So let’s start making a DIY toy robot car!
What you need?
Elements:
Power – 1
Motor – 2
Accessories:
Car plate
Wheels – 2
Roller – 1
Geared motors – 2
Double sided tape
The making
Step 1
Hold a wheel into your left hand and a geared motor in the right hand. Keep the motor in a way so the black head points opposite to you and the motor wire faces your right palm.
Push the motor shaft into the shaft slot of the wheel. You will have to match the flat and curved surfaces of the shaft and the slot.
Similarly, do this for the other wheel.
The place where you see Havi.co’s logo is the top front portion of the car chassis. You need to start working on the opposite side, i.e. the bottom.
Stick a piece of double sided tape on the motor. Match with the motor slot at the car plate bottom. Stick the geared motor on the car plate.
Similarly for the second motor.
Stick two small pieces of the tape at the bottom of the roller and stick that below Havi.co’s logo on the car plate.
Prepare the circuit of Power-Motor-Motor and connect it with the powerbank using USB cable. Stick the entire circuit setup with the car chassis using DST.
Connect the motor cables with the motor element.
Your robot car is ready to go. Turn the power on and it will zoom on the floor.
How does this robot car work?
The power element does supply the current to motor elements. The motor elements supply the current to geared motors which will rotate the connected wheels.
Wheels will rotate together to force the car to move. The roller will reduce the friction and will help the car to move smoothly.
This is the fundamental principle behind an electric car. Kids can submit this robot car project to school and science fairs.
Checkout the video of “How to make the robot car using havi elements”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E9zo_Wtook
This simple robot car can be converted into following robot car projects further.
How to make a line follower robot
How to make an edge avoiding robot
How to make an obstacle avoiding robot
Reverse Car Parking Sensor Project using Havi Elements