Fun With Robots Board Redesign
I’ve begun re designing the controller board for Carnegie Mellon’s StuCo class Fun With Robots.
The current board, the Firefly, designed by Botrics, has some issues with it that we would like to have resolved. First off, the boards we get from Botrics are sometimes inconsistent in design within a batch. By redesigning the board, we can guarantee the boards are consistent across a whole class worth. In addition to the inconsistencies, I will be adding some new features and upgrading some components.
The big upgrade I will be doing is replacing the serial connection with a USB connection. I may also replace the motor driver and upgrade the microcontoller.
For now I’m just going to redesign the board. In the future I may try to create my own new board.