Making A 2WD Robot Car Move With an Arduino and a Breadboard

In this video, we’re taking the next step and bringing our 2WD robot car to life using an Arduino and a breadboard!

Building on the chassis from our previous video, I wire up the TB6612 motor driver—a compact and efficient alternative to the larger L298N driver. I’ll guide you through the process of connecting everything together, programming the Arduino, and getting your robot car moving with some basic code to demo the movement options.

We'll be using the excellent SparkFun TB6612FNG Arduino Library to make the code cleaner and easier to understand.

Code: https://gist.github.com/APEVids/ac0ee...

00:00 Introduction
00:29 Build components
00:44 Desoldering wires from chassis build video
01:41 Prep the motor and battery wires
04:06 Solder the TB6612FNG pins
05:18 Make breadboard jumpers for the wires
06:54 Fix the Arduino and breadboard
07:30 Wiring diagram
08:08 Hooking up the Arduino to the breadboard
12:10 Tidying and fixing the 9v battery
13:09 Connect the Arduino to the computer
13:19 Download and install the Sparkfun TB6612FNG library
14:11 TB6612F motor movement code
15:00 The end result


𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀

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