I suck at soldering

Yesterday I tried to solder on leads to the motors to connect them to my breadboard, and failed horribly, so I'm going to get some help from Collin to learn how to solder properly. (I did get better over time, but I lost all my patience)

Below are some pictures of my robot prototype as it stands now - just motors connected to a battery. The top of the robot is on the left, and the bottom on the right. Everything is connected with duct tape, jumper wire, and hope, but I'll have a more permanent setup very soon.

 

I realized I haven't posted any pictures or descriptions of the parts I am using for the prototype of the robots, so I've included a picture below of all the parts I have so far. Note: these are only the basic parts - I have some sensors, and will need to get more parts for my eventual final version of the robot - these are just the basic structure of how the bot will move around.  Below the picture is a list of the parts as well. (Motor Driver, Step Up/Down, and wheels are not pictured)

• Raspberry Pi
• PiBox Enclosure for the Raspberry Pi
• GPIO ribbon cable for the Raspberry Pi
• 8 GB SDHC card for the Raspberry Pi
• Pololu Robot Chassis RRC01A Transparent Red
• Dual Chassis Completion Kit for RRC01A
• DRV8833 Dual Motor Driver Carrier
• 2-AA Battery Holder
• 4-AA Battery Holder
• Pololu Step-Up/Step-Down Voltage Regulator S7V7F5
• 270-Point Breadboard

In other news, after fighting with the SD card reader and eventually giving up and using another machine, I have copied the Raspbian OS on to the SD card so I can now start to set up an environment and code for the robots. Hopefully next week I can have the robot directing itself around.