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Okay, here I have one of the motors for the scrubberbought project
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I'm going to prepare to put some DuPont connectors on it. You can see I've already put a connector onto the red-wired motor
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but now I'm going to do the blue-wired motor. So the first thing I'll need to do is trim some of this blue wire
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some of this blue wire off. I'm going to trim it to about the same link as I did for the red
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wired motor. So now I'm just going to kind of untwist these. They were already twisted
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for mine. For the blue wired motor anyway, I had to twist the red wires. I'm going to have
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to strip both ends of these wires here for the motor. I'm doing so because we're going
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to have to put the DuPont pins on the ends of these wires later
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Okay, these are the pins for the DuPont connectors. You just twist them off of there
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They're easy to get off. I need two of them because I need one for each wire on the motor
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This is just what they look like as on a strip. Okay, now I'm putting one of the pins into my crumper
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It's specifically made to do these DuPont pins this crimper is. Here's a closer look at one of the pins
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You can see kind of the shape that they in I place the DuPont pins at first where the little V part the pointy part is just sticking out of the crumper tool
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And then I'm going to put the wire end into the pen that's held inside the crimper's mouth
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And I'm going to clamp down onto the crimper tool and release it
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And right now I have the first part of the pin clamp down onto the bare wire, as you can see here
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It's kind of curled in as the crimper clamps down, it curls in that piece of metal
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Now next, I'm going to put the other end of the pin, the part where the larger pointy part of the pin is going to be flush with the crimper tool
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I'll show more detail on this when I do the other wire for the motor
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But I just have it just inside flush, and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to crimp down on it
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You can see me crimping down onto the pin. Now you can see that the other part is crimped down, and I have it crimped down
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just on the blue sheathing of the wire. Now I'm going to do a little bit of adjustment using the very end of my crimper tool
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It's just kind of a flat end of it at the very end, the very tip of the tool
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and I just use it to make some adjustments to then the pin a little bit
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so it'll fit better inside its plastic casing that we'll do here in a little while
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which is the part that allows us to, plug it into the pins on the board
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Here another close look of one of the DuPont pins You can kind of see the shape There some teeth at the end there And you can see the larger teeth
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It's kind of a V shaped at the end. I let that part stick out just outside of the tool there
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You can see kind of that V shaped just outside the tool
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the outside of the teeth of the tool. And this is the first thing
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And this is the first step I do. And then I'll put the end of the wire in that
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And I'll clamp down on it again. I'll just squeeze on the handles of the crimper tool
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And that's the first step. Now I need to clamp down on the other part of the pen
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You can see that the two little pointy ends there are still sticking up, and I'm going to clamp down on those
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And I put that part where it's flush to the tool there
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It's just inside the tool there, you can see. And I have the V part pointing down
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into the V part of the crimper tool there and you can see me squeeze down and they curl in
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to the sheathing of the wire when I clamp down on it and that'll make a good tight fitting
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pin at the end of the wire here and you can see how it's crimped onto the wire. Now that I have
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both ends here I'm ready to put them into the plastic casing of the DuPont connector
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Here a close of those pins here Now here the plastic casing I don know what else to call it It just the part I going to shove the pins in You can see the arrow on it and that tells me
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that's the direction I'm going to push the pins in into the larger holes of this black plastic
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casing for the pins. This will allow us to connect the wires easily to our PCB board and disconnect them
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So now I'm going to take the first pin and all I'm going to do is just stick it in one of the holes
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It doesn't matter which one you're going to stick in. Just stick one in and shove it in the hole in the direction of the arrow
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in the plastic casing and then you'll hear that that clicking sound and that means
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it's in all the way and then I check to see if it is in all the way by kind of
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tugging on it a little bit and then I'll do the same thing for the other wire I'll shove it all the way in until I hear the click and I'll tug on it a
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little bit and that tells me that it's securely in and now this one's ready to go
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what I'll do is I'll take my PCB board now and I'll show you
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how they connect onto the board. You can see the pins that I'd soldered on to the PCB board for the
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scrubber bot earlier. And these DuPont pins allow me to clip them right into the board. I can flip them
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around so I can change the direction of the spin of the motor, clockwise or counterclockwise
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That's why I did these DuPont pins. It's an easier way to change the directions of the motor
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the motor whenever I want to I could just flip these DuPont connectors around however I want
