Weekend Project L298 Dual H-Bridge

This is a dual H-bridge Motor Controller that delivers 4Amps total (2A / motor). The 293, the little brother of this controller, only handles an amp. This one doubles its capability. Since the pinout is a little strange, I bought the whole thing with a PC board from HVTech, or Solarbotics, no matter, they are all the same now.

Anyway, it went together in a blink. Alright, true, a long blink, say a couple of hours, but together it went and passed the operation test as soon as it was hooked up.

Next expect me to do something freaky with the Motor Driver...

I'm back to building robots N stuff again. Though I'm also finishing off CwhatIcanDo and nursing it through the Alpha Testing period. The bug list has gotten much smaller and the things to do list has shrunk to a manageable size.

The website is coming!!!!

How's The New Website Effort Going?

With a few bugs still left, but a manageable list, and no way yet to log into the website, alpha testing will none the less begin.

That's because Phase One of Alpha Testing is all internal. We, the developers will now begin to develop projects on CwhatIcanDo.com. Phase One testing will continue till mid-August when we will invite creators to participate in wringing out the final issues and making suggestions to make the site easy to use and understand.

After what we expect to be a month and one half of actual development using the site and the Creator Tools, we will open the website to the general public. Most likely this will be at the end of November, just in time for holiday web marketing pushes. Because CwhatIcanDo is not exactly a gift shop, we are not driven by retail deadlines, but we are also sure that with our "buy here" parts lists, we are going to stimulate purchasing of parts and tools to create another's version of the projects on CwhatIcanDo.

So this month's blog entry is not going to be very interesting until somewhere around the end of the month when I will redirect you via this blog to the new C What I Can Do website!

Whoopee! Almost There!!!!