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A Baby Orangutan B-328<\/a> can be be purchased from RobotSimple for $19.45 USD<\/a> with free worldwide shipping?<\/p>\n Add to that a nRF24L01+ module<\/a> that can be purchased from their eBay store for $6.93 USD<\/a> with free worldwide shipping?<\/p>\n That’s $26.38 USD for two modules that can form the basis of most little robot projects, remote control toys or remote sensor applications.<\/p>\n Not affiliated with either store, just a happy customer \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Note : Baby Orangutan may need to be modified to use the two modules together<\/em><\/p>\n e.g. I’m removing the LDO voltage regulator and driving both the nRF24L01+ module and the Baby-O using a 3.3V LiFePO4 battery, connecting to the ‘Vout’ pin of the BabyO. \u00a0Connecting 2 LiFePO4 batteries (6.6V) to the Vin gives me some ooomph to drive motors using the onboard TB6612PNG H-bridges.<\/em><\/p>\n Oh and those dual shock USB controllers on eBay that go for $6 delivered (‘free worldwide shipping’) have two nice joysticks and 2 motors inside \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0Joysticks can easily be interfaced to the Baby-O and the motors can be used for…well anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Did you know… A Baby Orangutan B-328 can be be purchased from RobotSimple for $19.45 USD with free worldwide shipping? Add to that a nRF24L01+ module that can be purchased from their eBay store for $6.93 USD with free worldwide shipping? That’s $26.38 USD for two modules that can form the basis of most little … Continue reading “Low cost robot\/RC ideas…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}