parallax motor controllers and lynx motion chassis?

raulduke1011

I've been playing around with the boe-bot for quite some time now and have come to the point where I am constantly coming up with new ideas that I want to try but unfortunately there's just not much space to work with. This has been an excellent starting robot but I feel that I am ready to move on to something bigger now and below is my idea. I would like to purchase a chassis kit from lynxmotion.com and use two parallax HB-25 Motor Controllers to get it going with my current stamp 2 and board used in the boe-bot. This seems like the perfect starting point for moving up but I'm a little unsure and would hate to waste 300.00. Can somebody take a look a the two links below and tell me if I am correct? Much appreciated.

www.lynxmotion.com/Product.aspx?productID=577&CategoryID=109

www.parallax.com/Store/Microcontrollers/BASICStampModules/tabid/134/txtSearch/motor/List/1/ProductID/422/Default.aspx?SortField=ProductName%2cProductName

Tom C

raulduke1011,

The Parallax HB-25 is way overkill for the two motors on the tri track kit.

A Sabertooth 2X5 is a better solution and costs less than the two HB-25s.

Just a thought.

Regards,

TCIII

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