Beginner -help needed

[alanf79]

Hi Folks,
I hope to start my Ardumower project in the new year. i have a question regarding the drive motors, i have 2 24v High Torque Worm Geared Motor 27rpm and 2.5Nm torques but it has no encoder, i wonder would these be suitable for the drive motors? has anyone used motors without the encoders like this? could i just reverse the motors for a few seconds and change direction when Ardumower meets an obstacle?

I plan to build a basic ardumower with perimeter wire,my garden is approx 400m2 and flat. So, do i need to take out parts of the code that i dont need? or do i just download the code and Ardumower will just ignore the parts that i dont have such as bumper, wifi, gps, rain sensor etc?

Regards,
Alan

 

[redtop]

Hi Alan,

you can use the Ardumower without Odometry,

 

[roland]

You can use the motors. But without encoders, the robot will probably not drive in a straight line.
I don't use the software, but I think there are some flags you have to set in the code, to use only the parts needed.