The Rover 5 Seeeduino/Arduino Robot Kit is a robot kit that combines the powerful Rover 5 chassis, with a Seeeduino (an Arduino compatible controller board) to give you a complete robot with loads of great features. The kit is easy to assemble, and accessible for beginners, whilst providing the flexibility that more experienced robot builders need to build advanced robotic projects.

This kit is built from components we sell, making it easy to swap in alternatives, or to resuse the components for other projects later on. Moreover buying this kit saves you over 10% of the price you'd pay if you bought the components separately!

Features

• Rugged Tank chassis with 2 powerful motors
• Encoders with 1000 pulses every 3 wheel revolutions
• Motor current sensing
• 4 corner mounted Infra Red sensors
• Ultrasonic Range Sensor mounted on a pan/tilt head
• 6xAA battery holder (batteries not included)
• NiMh batteries can be trickle charged using a 9-12V DC Power Adaptor (not included) 

Kit Contents

The vast majority of the components in this kit can be bought separately elsewhere on this site. The kit contains

• 1 x Dagu Rover 5 Robot Chassis - (2 Motors and 2 Encoders)
• 1 x Dagu Explorer PCB for Rover 5
• 1 x Seeeduino V3.0 (Atmega 328P) - Arduino Compatible Board
• 1 x 40 Pin Dual Male Splittable Jumper Wire - 300mm
• 2 x Jumpers
• 1 x Jumper Cable - 200mm Female to Female - 3 Pin
• 1 x Dagu Sensor Pan/Tilt Kit
• 1 x SeeedStudio - Ultrasonic Range Measurement Sensor Module
• 1 x Sensor Fixing Set
• 4 x Cable ties
• 1 x USB to mini-USB cable 

Extra Requirements

In order to use this robot kit you will also need

• A computer
• 6xAA Rechargeable batteries NiMh or NiCd. These should ideally be high capacity batteries i.e. 2400mAh 

Note: It is possible to run this robot with Alkaline (non-rechargeable) batteries. However you may find that they are unable to supply the current that the robot needs for extended periods of time. Also, if you do use Alkaline batteries do NOT attempt to use the trickle charge feature by attaching a power adaptor to the barrel jack on the Explorer PCB. Attempting to charge Alkaline batteries in this way can result in fire/carnage etc.

Useful Links

Manual

Driver to use the Seeeduino on Windows (download the setup executable)

Sample Code - A set of 5 simple examples. Using the different parts of the Rover 5

Sample Code - Implements a simple wall following behaviour