Michael L. Belanger

Tag: RoboShield

  • RoboShield Prototype part 1

    RoboShield Prototype part 1

    Here is the first set of components, connectors, and wire on the prototype RoboShield daughter-board for the Arudino microcontroller. The bottom-left quadrant of the board will be an h-bridge motor controller to drive two robot motors. Above that is a piezo buzzer and three-color RGB LED. The connector blocks on the uppper edge and the bottom right provide access to the Arduino’s input/output pins as well as ground and 5v buss lines to make interfacing sensors quick and easy. More on this soon…

  • RoboShield for Arudino – Component Layout

    RoboShield for Arudino – Component Layout

    RobotShield for Arduino Component Layout
    Laying out the components for a robotics shield for the Arduino microcontroller.

    Here is the first step in designing a robotics daughter-board (the RoboShield) for the Arduino microcontroller. I’m just laying out the components and marking things up in Sharpie to get a feel of how to use space on the tiny little board (it’s about the size of a business card).

    Once this is designed and tested it will greatly simplify building the Ard-bots we use for the Arduino Robotics class.