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A project log for Smart Motor Driver for Robotics

This motor driver is able to control a motor using PID by I2C. Taking precise control of a motor have never been so easy.

danny-frDanny FR 08/05/2018 at 22:430 Comments

Well, one of the purposes of this project is to make it available to the public. However it may be so difficult to ask everybody to make their own board. Because some parts are pretty small and require a little bit of experience doing SMD soldering before trying to make this boards.

It will be a waste if I let that happen, I want that everyone can use this in their robots and all kinds of projects. So they can benefit from the advanced control available for motors in this board put right in their hands in an easy to use and practical way.

I make a quotation on Digikey and some other providers in order to calculate the selling price of this. In the table below you can see the price for each part and some other costs. However it will be some more cost hidden, but for now this will give us an idea.

This prices are only for a small batch of 25 boards, the cost is per board. So $16.36 selling price seems cheap enough, but surely it can be improved building at least 1000 boards!!! 

I will need to do my best for making it as cheap as possible and make it available for everyone :)

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