Specs:
Motorolla Coldfire CF5206 CPU
Running at 25 Mhz
16 Meg. Ram
Kingston NE2000 compatable
(3) RS232 serial ports
Interface board:
16 I/O ports.
5 servo ports
2 display ports. (1 4x40 LCD, the other a custom display board)
1 Motor controller port (15 speed(plus stop) PWM) attached to (2) L293 motor controllers
+12v to +5v switching power supply @ 3A
Eveready 12v Camcorder Battery
Charger (12V Lead Acid camcorder battery charger)
MAX155 8 ch. 8 bit ADC (8 simultaneously sampled inputs)
The Linx Technologies 900 Mhz Evaluation kit
Line following CDS cells in inverted 'V'. Works well.
* Concidering getting Dallas semi digital potentiometers to auto calibrate them.
To come:
Speech synthesizer (National Semiconductor Digitalker)
*Partially works.
Temperature sensor.
Ultrasonic rangefinder. (HE-33X from Herrian Proffer, has narrower cone than polaroid unit)
Herrian Proffer
*Seems to work pretty good so far.
IR proximity sensors. (Lynxmotion IR Prox Sensors. Very sensitive.)
*Working on calibrating these.
**No longer using.
GP2D02 IR Range sensors used instead of IR prox sensors.
Light meters. (My own CDS photocell / ADC converter)
To program it I am using the GNU C++ compiler and debugger.
I will be writing my own operating system for it and then the logic for the robot itself.
I have ported a Basic interpreter over to the Coldfire boards.
This works really well. It is perfect for testing and robot demos. |