Red Rover Robot Chassis Kit with DC Motors and Motor Controller

Now available in multiple colours!  Our Red Rover can now be ordered in Blue, Gold, or our original Red!

Red Rover is a simple 2WD robot chassis that gets your projects moving quickly! Unlike other robots that need expensive motor control boards, Elmwood Electronics' Red Rover comes with a really simple motor controller board. If you can make servos move, you can make Red Rover move!

What's included

• Red anodized aluminum chassis with cutouts for drive motors and hardware.
  Platform approximately 156 x 73 mm
• Aluminum support shelf with standoffs
• Dual-channel motor control board
• Two DC gear motors (micro-servo size)
• Two large drive wheels with tires (outside diameter approximately 60 mm)
• Swivel caster
• Mounting hardware and cable harness

How it works

Red Rover includes a motor driver board that makes the wheel drive motors appear as two continuous rotation servos:

So you'll be able to use your micro-controller's standard servo library to drive Red Rover. Set the motor to 180° and it'll drive at 100% forward. Set it to 0°, and the motor will run backwards at full speed. Set it to 90° and it stops.

This graph gives a more detailed timing diagram if you wish to drive Red Rover at a lower level:

For more details and example code, please see our blog post Red Rover, Red Rover, we'll send it right over!

NB: Arduino, power pack and pen kit shown in some pictures are not included.