L298 Motor Controller

L298 is a very famous H-Bridge IC for controlling DC/Stepper motors. It is essential for making wheel robots. If you plan to build a robot in year 2010, you should check this cool tutorial by PyroElectro. It teaches you all the important things to know about this motor controller and show you some samples codes.


Tutorial here: http://www.pyroelectro.com/tutorials/l298_control/index.html

LEGO Mindstroms Sudoku Solver.

A robot made with LEGO Mindstroms can scan the text on a sudoku game sheet and control a pen to write the answer back. It is really amazing. It involves many complicated tasks, like motor control, image processing and character recognition.

Demonstration video:


Project website:
http://tiltedtwister.com/sudokusolver.html

Motors control with MCU.

Guys from Nerdkits.com, presents "Motors and Microcontrollers 101". The tutorial covers some basic idea of motors:


Check out the complete tutorial here:
http://www.nerdkits.com/videos/motors_and_microcontrollers_101/