Solar Powered Robot from TRASH!!!!

Step 3 Assemble the Curcuit

In this step you will need...

Soldering Iron, solder, motors, switch, and the battery case.

When wiring the motors, don't worry about polarity (positive and negative), you can fix which way the motors spin by rewiring the motors later on. How the are wired dictates how they spin, and which way you want them to spin is going to depend on your frame you mount this on.

I guess while we are on the subject of the circuit I should explain how this works...

The circuit from the solar light is meant to charge a battery from the panel during the day, and discharge that battery through 2 LED's at night. By replacing the LED's with motors and putting in a more powerful battery pack, we do two things to this circuit;

1. The circuit will still charge the batteries, but only while the robot is on.

2. When the robot is in the dark it will run at half power, and full power in the sun. Meaning the motors will run slowly in the dark, and faster in light.