Building the Body

I had some plywood lying around going moldy and I found a barbecue lid during a council household waste throw out day, so I cut them up. Here they are ready for assembly:

Here it is taped together ready for glue (note that my dog has died of fright!):

Now you may have spotted why the Daleks always failed at taking over the universe?

Basically they are too wide to get through the door!

All glued together:

Here are the drive motors:

And the electronics:

These L298N drivers are a waste of time. I wrote a 20kHz PWM driver but the drivers are barely able handle 0.5A (way less than their specification). The heat sink is just too small.

Here is a Bluetooth replacement using A4988s. Much better but Bluetooth is not reliable:

I blew all the electronic on this board when the battery lead accidentally touched something it should not have.

I can rebuild it but I have moved on to a an Arduino ESP8266. Here is the Dalek webpage:

This is neat as I can use my phone as a remote control.

The movement buttons are self-explanatory, the Status buttons currently reads the analog voltage and one of the digital pins. The Seek buttons returns a message that the Dalek is looking for humans to exterminate and the Exterminate button turns on the LED (lets pretend its a laser).

AlanX