The progress (finally)
So it has been some time...
Well, I actually work on this with a firend. He designed some circuit using transistors to control the wheels via four pins. (one for both forwards and backwards on each wheel)
It didn't work tho. We didn't see each other for two months after that and I didn't want to continue without him. I also didn't want to write about not achieving anything, so yea...
Now we met again, so it's time for progress!
Turns out some transistors were upside-down, so it wasn't that hard to fix. We remade it using the bigger ones and stuck one into the front hole. It worked, so we connected it to the ESP32 board.
After that Two important decisions were made.
1, give it a battery backpack. While it had it's battery under the ESP32, it wouldn't fit inside the original case. For this reason, I hotglued it to it's back. It also has a removable jumper as a activation method. The entire top half can be opened for usb access.
2, give it eyes. We found some spare serial RGB LEDs and they fit perfectly as eyes, so it has eyes now. If nothing else, it adds some extra challange into programming it, as I will have to implement it's protocol.
Now just get to making the software part...