Tag Archives: Unregulated Motors

Zumo 32U4 Synchronize Motor

I received a recent question on how to make the Zumo drive straight.  There are a few ways to do this, but the easiest way is to synchronize the motors.  In this post, I’ll briefly discuss a simple method to … Continue reading

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Zumo 32U4 Unregulated, Unsynchronized Motor Steer Block

This post brings us back to motion and navigation.  One of the goals was to make the Zumo behave a bit more like a LEGO EV3.  The EV3 has these very useful MoveSteer block.  While this seems like a very … Continue reading

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Zumo 32U4 – Squaring to an Edge or Line

This post talks about a common step for any robotics competition, namely, squaring the robot to a line or an edge.  This builds off of previous post where you worked on having the robot drive to an edge.  The program … Continue reading

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Zumo 32U4 Motor Encoders

In the previous post, we walked through how to turn the motors on for a specific amount of time.  In this post, we will turn the motors on for a specific amount of encoder pulses.  Like the EV3, encoders count … Continue reading

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Zumo Simple Driving Program

These blog posts on the Zumo will start out very simple.  This is assuming the reader has little to no Arduino experience.  The goal of this post is simply to teach the reader how to write a program that will … Continue reading

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