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Chapter 7 / Turtletron: Build Your Own Robotic Turtle
FIGURE 7.22
Neck mount and sonar
ranger attached to
Turtletron’s body.

Attaching the antenna to the RF module. Locate the 6-3/4 inch
whip antenna and strip 1/2-inch of the insulator and shielding
material from the connector wire. Drill a hole in the second
Frisbee, toward the edge, using a 1/4-inch bit. Mount the whip
antenna to the Frisbee by feeding the connector lead through the
hole and then fastening the mounting nut. Solder the wire to the
antenna mount area on the back of the Lynx RXM-433-LC-S
receiver module. Bend the pins on the receiver module 90 degrees
downward, if this was not done earlier in Chapter 6. The finished
top cover with the antenna and receiver module attached is shown
in Figure 7.23.

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