Hey Dovid, If you wanted a specific motor recommendation: 5v, 10a, does a bijjilion torqueometers per wow-o-second, you might get some answers on the list... But I think your questions are general enough that folks'll have to interact with you directly in the shop... --Doug On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Dovid Taub <dtaub@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > First of all, this is my first post here, so- Hello, everybody! > > Next- some have you may have seen the animatronic bird puppet/robbot I've > been working on. I've been having tons of trouble getting him to move. My > problems have been with motors and motor controllers. I was hoping I could > get some suggestions as to how to best get this guy roaming around. > > so far i've ruined 2 cheap rc cars, burnt out an arduino motor shield, and > have had some problems getting a sparkfun serial motor controller board to > work. I've also tried hooking up the rc remote to my arduino, which was a > round-about way of doing it, but worked until...it didn't. Anyways, i > wanted to take opportunity to rethink how to get him moving. > > -Dovid > >