I have some Jeeperz Pictures!!!
343: Frontal View: Note the "headlights" (4 white LED's) that I installed with wood screws. removed from old "gameboy" LCD backlight. Also if you look closely, you can see the 2 standoff screws on the Hood of Jeeperz, also the Jeep sticker.
344: Side view showing the power switch, Battery pack (in jeeperz' Trunk space) and frontal cut out for board (the perf board was too big, so I removed some stuff with rotary drill).
345: Room seeking board on left (incomplete) and the impact sensor on the right. When Jeeperz hits a wall, it activates a 555 timer to emit a pircing tone, to protect from stalling motor. Underneath the Roomseeking board is a massive cap (3300uf) for when both motors kick in, it helps supply the rest of the bot. The seat screws (to mount the seats in) was spaced perfectly for the impact sensor board. The room seeking board required standoffs.
347: Speaker for impact sensor mounted to metal plate for added resonance (totally just made that up)
348: Supposed to be the front motor mounting, for turning
Attempting to get schemmy up.
EDIT: went out for lunch with my sister and came back with some stuff. Schemmy looks like crap, but I am using a LM324, with all the negative inputs tied together, then ran through the wiper of a 20k pot, with one side of the pot attached to GND and the other attached to +5v. The positive input is powered by the receiver. The receiver is attached to +5v and the cathode is attached to ground. The IR is going to be powered by a 555 running at 40k hertz, but I dont know what caps and resistors to use. Keep doing guess and check work to calculate 40k, but cant get it. Anybody know what caps and resistors to use (running 555 in astable of course)? I am also taking the output of the LM324 and that is sinking a LED on all 4 outputs. I dont know How I am going to use the Outputs to drive the motor, but I am thinking of somehow using those to power a H-bridge to make the motor go back and forth, for tuning. I want to stick to the turning idea, just to see how it works. I will try and make a good schemmy later.
EDIT 2: I know the benefits and downsides to turning robots, with the turning axle, but I wanted to use this so it could go on carpet. Imagine a crappy little coaster trying to go through carpet....
I <3 j33P3rZ!