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Best Arduino board for Boe-Bot chassis?

LoudmindLoudmind Posts: 8
edited 2014-08-04 12:06 in General Discussion
Hi there,

My son and I are planning on doing a project that requires an Arduino board instead of the BOE. I was wondering if there's a specific Arduino board that would easily mount to the Boe-Bot chassis and have ports that would enable the servos/wheels to still work. Happy to answer any questions that might help.

Thanks,
Roger

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  • Bill HenningBill Henning Posts: 6,445
    edited 2014-08-03 16:58
    See http://www.parallax.com/product/35000

    the Parallax arduino shield for Boe-Bot
    Loudmind wrote: »
    Hi there,

    My son and I are planning on doing a project that requires an Arduino board instead of the BOE. I was wondering if there's a specific Arduino board that would easily mount to the Boe-Bot chassis and have ports that would enable the servos/wheels to still work. Happy to answer any questions that might help.

    Thanks,
    Roger
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2014-08-03 16:59
    You have a few choices:

    The Parallax shield ( http://www.parallax.com/product/35000 ) adapts and Arduino for the Boe-bot.

    Critical Velocity sells an Arduino compatible that is in the BS2 form factor http://www.criticalvelocity.com/item.php?itemid=ard4 which can be used with an existing Board of Education.

    With a bit of hackery the Pololu Baby Orangutan will work with a Board of Education http://www.pololu.com/product/1220 , but I don't reccomend that unless you are comfortable with jiggery pokery.
  • LoudmindLoudmind Posts: 8
    edited 2014-08-03 17:08
    Thanks, guys, this is really helpful.

    Roger
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2014-08-03 17:08
    Martin_H wrote: »
    With a bit of hackery the Pololu Baby Orangutan will work with a Board of Education http://www.pololu.com/product/1220 , but I don't reccomend that unless you are comfortable with jiggery pokery.

    Good to know. I've had one of those in storage and never touched it. Along with my C-Stamp, Basic Atom, Basic-X, and numerous others.

    You can't program the Baby O in a BoE, can you? Don't tell me I bought (but still haven't used) that programmer for nothing!
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2014-08-03 17:32
    erco wrote: »
    Good to know. I've had one of those in storage and never touched it. Along with my C-Stamp, Basic Atom, Basic-X, and numerous others.

    You can't program the Baby O in a BoE, can you? Don't tell me I bought (but still haven't used) that programmer for nothing!

    The Baby O can be programmed in circuit using the six pin ISCP header, not the BOE's serial port. This is minor jiggery pokery. The bigger jiggery pokery is that seven of the 24 pins seven don't match the BS2 pinout. To work around this I soldered female headers facing upward on those pins, and male pins facing downward for the compatible pins. It then drops into the BOE for the power and breadboard area. The Baby O can be programed with either the Arduino toolchain or the Atmel tools

    I could do a write up for this over in the projects section, but this is sort of a Parallax project and sort of a Pololu project.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2014-08-03 17:48
    Martin_H, you sir are a hacker's hacker! (Rigger's rigger just didn't sound right)
  • GenetixGenetix Posts: 1,754
    edited 2014-08-04 12:06
    I have a pile of PIC boards and chips I've never used.
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