Wifi Tank!

For my cat Bon Bon!

I had an old tracked chassis from Tamiya and a particle photon microcontroller and I decided put them together to play with my cat using my phone. It came out much better than I thought I'll be honest. I think the hardest part was outfitting it with batteries that have enough juice.

Check out my github repo here

Tools: Particle Photon, Soldering Iron, C coding
Date: January 2021

I used the DRV8833 Dual Motor Driver Carrier (linked here) and a particle photon.

I am just going to photo dump. Here's my cute cat Bonbon and then the electronics for the tank. My github repo is in the main description. I just had to do a bit of coding and some soldering for the motor connections and voila.

Future steps when I get back home are to make a shell casing for the tank that maybe is just a stuffed animal, as well as hook up a better battery system than I had initially.


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