Wireless forklift (parts from cytron)

[vickysan007]

Hi! I need help. I am 15 years old and have never used a soldering iron. There's this forklift project but i dont know how to build it. Can someone give me instructions on how to build a wireless forklift? Can you also change all the soldering wires to breadboard. All of the parts are available from Cytron. Any help will be much appreciated...

Pls go to the link below to see the project that I found...
http://psm.fke.utm.my/libraryfke/files/546_ABDULAZIZBINABDULRAHMAN2010.pdf

[ABSF]

I dont think it is advisable to do everything on the breadboard for this project. At least not for the power supply and motor part which consumes more power. You can see that the PCBs are stacked together to reduce size. If you were to use breadboards, how are you going to interconnect between 2 breadboards reliably and how are you going to troubleshoot if there is problem?

Breadboard is good for doing a trial testing of simple circuits but for such a complex project using 4 or 5 PCBs, it is better to stick with PCBs. Besides, are all the software codes given off freely for this project ? If not, do you have any experience in writing C codes for PIC?

Soldering is no big deal. There are temperature controlled soldering irons so you wont overheat the component that easily nowadays. So start practising soldering and I wish you best of luck in your w.c. forklift project.

Allen

[vickysan007]

Well you have a point. I should use PCB's. The only prolem is that I don't have A soldering iron. I am learning programming in c language. No, the codes are not given free but i'll try to get them.... Do you know any good place to learn robotics mostly on the technical part... I have used Lego NXT but i do not think that it is worth it cause there's no technical stuff used... Well thanks anyway"......

[Brian Griffin]

Well you have a point. I should use PCB's. The only prolem is that I don't have A soldering iron. I am learning programming in c language. No, the codes are not given free but i'll try to get them.... Do you know any good place to learn robotics mostly on the technical part... I have used Lego NXT but i do not think that it is worth it cause there's no technical stuff used... Well thanks anyway"......

If you need to start on soldering, try those simple and cheap DIY hobby kits. If you can construct a few of them, you might have no problem building a microcontroller-based project.