Welcome to Dark Water
This guide will help you get your hardware set up, connected, and working quickly and easily.
So, let's get going - follow the links for your board below
The 640 board
The 640 (Six for Zero) board is a DC and Stepper motor control board capable of powering 6 independent DC motors (from 2 – 11v) or 3 stepper motors.
- Getting started find out about your 640 board
- Setup your 640 setting up your 640 board ready for use
- Setting up your Pi setting up your Raspberry Pi
- Wiring everything up connecting your power, motors and servos
- Programming in Python the Python API and how to use it
- Programming in C++ controlling the board in C++
- Set up RC Input reading input from your RC receiver
- Expanding adding extra expansion boards
- Get Advanced more advanced things you can do
The ESCAPE board
The ESCAPE (ESC-cape) board was designed to provide a method of using brushless motors rather than the DC motors.
- Getting started find out about your ESCAPE board
- Setup your ESCAPE setting up your ESCAPE board ready for use
- Setting up your Pi setting up your Raspberry Pi
- Wiring everything up connecting your power, motors and servos
- Programming in Python the Python API and how to use it
- Programming in C++ controlling the board in C++
- Set up RC Input reading input from your RC receiver
- Expanding adding extra expansion boards
- Get Advanced more advanced things you can do
The SOAR board
The SOAR board is a holder for advanced sensors. It is ideal for use with different robot control boards, or if you have a single sensor expansion board you want to switch between robots.
- Getting started setting up your SOAR board ready for use
- Adding an expansion board adding an expansion board
- Reading data reading the sensor data
Tutorials
We've put together a few tutorials to help you build functioning robots that you can then expand upon.
- Building the GrassShark coming soon
- Building the Buggy coming soon
- Building the quadcopter Building and flying a quad-copter with the ESCAPE board.