Picking the Parts for a Small Robot | Embedded System Project Series #2

Programming an embedded system is basically about controlling a piece of hardware, and it's essential to understand that hardware to program it. So in this video, I start talking about the hardware (sumobot) I'm going to be programming in the coming videos. I show a hardware block diagram and discuss the parts and why I picked them, including the motors, sensors, battery, and microcontroller. I also explain why I didn't use an Arduino, and why I don't think you should if you want to learn embedded systems development. 📋 HW block diagram - https://www.artfulbytes.com/static/c9... ⚙️ The parts Motor driver (out of stock) - https://www.digikey.se/en/products/de... Motor - https://www.jsumo.com/core-dc-motor-6... Range sensor - https://www.st.com/en/imaging-and-pho... Line sensor (analog version) - https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9453 Battery - https://www.amazon.se/Makerfire-LiPo-... Microcontroller - https://www.ti.com/tool/MSP-EXP430G2ET https://www.digikey.se/sv/products/de... Note, I 've already built this project, so the code and hardware design are available on GitHub https://github.com/artfulbytes/nsumo_... https://github.com/artfulbytes/nsumo_... Of course, going over it a second time, the code might end up slightly different (better). 0:00 Intro 1:12 Hardware block diagram 1:35 Motors 11:00 Motor drivers 13:39 Range sensors 18:42 Line sensors 19:18 IR receiver 19:50 Battery 21:47 Why not Arduino? 24:07 Microcontroller 29:47 Recap 🌍 Links GitHub - https://github.com/artfulbytes Website - https://www.artfulbytes.com 👨‍💻About me Hi and welcome. I'm Niklas, an embedded systems engineer from Sweden. On this channel, I make practical videos about embedded systems or, in general terms, about building and programming hardware.