Picking the Parts for a Small Robot | Embedded System Project Series #2

Programming an embedded system is basically about controlling a piece of hardware, and it's essential to understand that hardware to program it. So in this video, I start talking about the hardware (sumobot) I'm going to be programming in the coming videos. I show a hardware block diagram and discuss the parts and why I picked them, including the motors, sensors, battery, and microcontroller. I also explain why I didn't use an Arduino, and why I don't think you should if you want to learn embedded systems development.

📋 HW block diagram - https://www.artfulbytes.com/static/c90de6b04f8aa977bb8d2a026a13dd9e/16038/sysdiag.jpg

⚙️ The parts
Motor driver (out of stock) - https://www.digikey.se/en/products/detail/toshiba-semiconductor-and-storage/TB6612FNGC8EL/1730134
Motor - https://www.jsumo.com/core-dc-motor-6v-400-rpm
Range sensor - https://www.st.com/en/imaging-and-photonics-solutions/vl53l0x.html
Line sensor (analog version) - https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9453
Battery - https://www.amazon.se/Makerfire-LiPo-batteri-intelligent-Quadcopter-reservdelar/dp/B07M9T66WV
Microcontroller -
https://www.ti.com/tool/MSP-EXP430G2ET
https://www.digikey.se/sv/products/detail/texas-instruments/MSP430G2553IPW28R/2638887

Note, I 've already built this project, so the code and hardware design are available on GitHub
https://github.com/artfulbytes/nsumo_software
https://github.com/artfulbytes/nsumo_hardware
Of course, going over it a second time, the code might end up slightly different (better).

0:00 Intro
1:12 Hardware block diagram
1:35 Motors
11:00 Motor drivers
13:39 Range sensors
18:42 Line sensors
19:18 IR receiver
19:50 Battery
21:47 Why not Arduino?
24:07 Microcontroller
29:47 Recap

🌍 Links
GitHub - https://github.com/artfulbytes
Website - https://www.artfulbytes.com

👨‍💻About me
Hi and welcome. I'm Niklas, an embedded systems engineer from Sweden. On this channel, I make practical videos about embedded systems or, in general terms, about building and programming hardware.

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