Product description: 32U4 OLED controller board for Pololu 3pi+ robot - Pololu 4973
The 32U4 OLED control board for the Pololu 3pi+ line tracking robot that is included in the Standard Edition, Turtle Edition and Hyper Edition OLED robot kits. The board can be used as a replacement for the original one used in the robot kit, or as a basis for creating your own version of the 3pi+ robot, complete with 3pi+ chassis and DC 6V micro motors. Included with the board is a buzzer, connection wires, two magnetic encoder disks, a 2x7 pin male goldpin connector, four battery connectors and nuts and bolts.
Specifications of the 3pi+ robot controller
- Microcontroller: ATmega32U4 with Arduino compatible bootloader
- Clock speed: 16 MHz
- Amount of RAM: 2560 b
- Program memory size: 32 kb
- Motor driver: DRV8838
- Number of motor driver channels: 2
- Minimum operating voltage: 2,7 V
- Maximum operating voltage: 6,5 V
- Continuous output current per channel: 1.8 A
- Operating voltage of the logic part: 5 V
- Protection against reverse polarity
- No external programmer required
- Dimensions: 66 x 86 mm
- Weight: 20 g
Components needed to create the 3pi+ robot
In order to create your own robot design you will need, among other things:
- Pololu 3pi+ robot chassis kit
- Two micro DC motors (recommended 6 V MP or 6 V HPCB motors)
- Four AAA batteries: the robot works with either alkaline or rechargeable Ni-MH batteries, recommended Ni-MH batteries
- USB to microUSB cable to connect to a computer for programming or debugging
- Tools to assemble the kit
Additional components:
- OLED graphic display
- More sensors
- Connectors (goldpin strips, jumpers, wires, etc.) to connect additional sensors or other accessories to the robot