It is time to explain how to build our Click-to-Go robot. Before going any further we would like to boldly say that robotic projects can teach us the fundamental fields of science such as mechanics, electronics, and programming. We will cover these topics in the following sections of this chapter.
As we go through the building process of our Click-to-Go robot, you will see that we have kept it as simple as possible. Moreover, instead of buying ready-to-use robot kits, we have built our own simple and robust robot. Of course, if you are planning to buy a robot kit or already have a kit available, you can simply adapt your existing robot into this project.
Our robot design is relatively simple in terms of mechanics. We will use only a box-shaped container platform, two gear motors with two individual wheels, a battery to drive the motors, one nRF24L01 Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver module, a bunch of jumper wires, an L293D IC and, of course, one Arduino Uno board module. We...