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A look at the hardware

The sensor board

  1. Connector to the main board
  2. Connector (under the board) to the motor board
  3. Connector to the sensors
  4. 74HC244 - Reads the user pushbutton switches
  5. 74HC138 - Decodes the addresses for I/O functions
  6. 74HC574 - Sends data to the motor driver chips
  7. 74HC245 - Reads data from the IR sensors
  8. Buffer
  9. LM339 Comparators
  10. Adjusts the sensitivity of the sensors.