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  • Arduino Robot (Italy) (Discontinued)
  • Arduino Robot (Italy) (Discontinued)
  • Arduino Robot (Italy) (Discontinued)
  • Arduino Robot (Italy) (Discontinued)

Arduino Robot (Italy) (Discontinued)

MODEL: AE-AR-A000078

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The Arduino Robot is the first official Arduino on wheels. The robot has two processors, one on each of its two boards. The Motor Board controls the motors, and the Control Board reads sensors and decides how to operate. Each of the boards is a full Arduino board programmable using the Arduino IDE.

Both Motor and Control boards are microcontroller boards based on the ATmega32u4(datasheet). The Robot has many of its pins mapped to on-board sensors and actuators. Programming the robot is similar to the process with the Arduino Leonardo. Both processors have built-in USB communication, eliminating the need for a secondary processor. This allows the Robot to appear to a connected computer as a virtual (CDC) serial / COM port. As always with Arduino, every element of the platform – hardware, software and documentation – is freely available and open-source. This means you can learn exactly how it's made and use its design as the starting point for your own robots. The Arduino Robot is the result of the collective effort from an international team looking at how science can be made fun to learn. Arduino is now on wheels, come ride with us!

You can find here your board warranty informations.

Getting Started

In the Getting Started section, you can find all the information you need to configure your board, use the Arduino Software (IDE), and start to tinker with coding and electronics.

Need Help?

  • On the Software on the Arduino Forum
  • On Projects on the Arduino Forum
  • On the Product itself through our Customer Support
  • Control Board Summary

    Microcontroller ATmega32u4
    Operating Voltage 5V
    Input Voltage 5V through flat cable
    Digital I/O Pins 5
    PWM Channels 6
    Analog Input Channels 4 (of the Digital I/O pins)
    Analog Input Channels (multiplexed) 8
    DC Current per I/O Pin 40 mA
    Flash Memory 32 KB (ATmega32u4) of which 4 KB used by bootloader
    SRAM 2.5 KB (ATmega32u4)
    EEPROM (internal) 1 KB (ATmega32u4)
    EEPROM (external) 512 Kbit (I2C)
    Clock Speed 16 MHz
    Keypad 5 keys
    Knob potentiomenter attached to analog pin
    Full color LCD over SPI communication
    SD card reader for FAT16 formatted cards
    Speaker 8 Ohm
    Digital Compass provides deviation from the geographical north in degrees
    I2C soldering ports 3
    Prototyping areas 4
    Radius 185 mm
    Heigth 85 mm

    Motor Board Summary

    Microcontroller ATmega32u4
    Operating Voltage 5V
    Input Voltage 9V to battery charger
    AA battery slot 4 alkaline or NiMh rechargeable batteries
    Digital I/O Pins 4
    PWM Channels 1
    Analog Input Channles 4 (same as the Digital I/O pins)
    DC Current per I/O Pin 40 mA
    DC-DC converter generates 5V to power up the whole robot
    Flash Memory 32 KB (ATmega32u4) of which 4 KB used by bootloader
    SRAM 2.5 KB (ATmega32u4)
    EEPROM 1 KB (ATmega32u4)
    Clock Speed 16 MHz
    Trimmer for movement calibration
    IR line following sensors 5
    I2C soldering ports 1
    Prototyping areas 2

     

  • OSH: Schematics

    Arduino Robot is open-source hardware! You can build your own board using the following files:

    EAGLE FILES IN .ZIP

     

    Power

    The Arduino Robot can be powered via the USB connection or with 4 AA batteries. The power source is selected automatically. The battery holder holds 4 rechargeable NiMh AA batteries.

    NB : Do not use non-rechargeable batteries with the robot

    For safety purposes, the motors are disabled when the robot is powered from the USB connection. The robot has an on-board battery charger that requires 9V external power coming from an AC-to-DC adapter (wall-wart). The adapter can be connected by plugging a 2.1mm center-positive plug into the Motor Board's power jack. The charger will not operate if powered by USB. The Control Board is powered by the power supply on the Motor Board.

    Memory

    The ATmega32u4 has 32 KB (with 4 KB used for the bootloader). It also has 2.5 KB of SRAM and 1 KB of EEPROM (which can be read and written with the EEPROM library). The Control Board has an extra 512 Kbit EEPROM that can be accessed via I2C. There is an external SD card reader attached to the GTFT screen that can be accessed by the Control Board's processor for additional storage.

    Input and Output

    The Robot comes with a series of pre-soldered connectors. There are a number of additional spots for you to install additional parts if needed. All the connectors are labelled on the boards and mapped to named ports through the Robot library allowing access to standard Arduino functions. Each pin can provide or receive a maximum of 40mA at 5V. Some pins have specialized functions :

  • Control Board TK0 to TK7: these pins are multiplexed to a single analog pin on theControl Board's microprocessor. They can be used as analog inputs for sensors like distance sensors, analog ultrasound sensors, or mechanical switches to detect collisions.

  • Control Board TKD0 to TKD5: these are digital I/O pins directly connected to the processor, addressed using Robot.digitalRead() and Robot.digitalWrite) functions. Pins TKD0 to TKD3 can also be used as analog inputs with Robot.analogRead()

    Note: if you have one of the first generation robots, you will see that the TKD* pins are named TDK* on the Robot's silkscreen. TKD* is the proper name for them and is how we address them on the software.

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  • Motor Board TK1 to TK4: these pins are named in software as B_TK1 to B_TK4, they can be digital or analog input pins, and support Robot.digitalRead()Robot.digitalWrite) andRobot.analogRead().

  • Serial Communication: The boards communicate with each other using the processors' serial port. A 10-pin connector connects both boards carries the serial communication, as well as power and additional information like the battery's current charge.

  • Control Board SPI: SPI is used to control the GTFT and SD card. If you want to flash the processor using an external programmer, you need to disconnect the screen first.

  • Control Board Pin Mapping

    ARDUINO LEONARDO ARDUINO ROBOT CONTROL ATMEGA 32U4 FUNCTION REGISTER
    D0 RX PD2 RX RXD1/INT2
    D1 TX PD3 TX TXD1/INT3
    D2 SDA PD1 SDA SDA/INT1
    D3# SCL PD0 PWM8/SCL OC0B/SCL/INT0
    D4 MUX_IN A6 PD4   ADC8
    D5# BUZZ PC6 ??? OC3A/#OC4A
    D6# MUXA/TKD4A7 PD7 FastPWM #OC4D/ADC10
    D7 RST_LCD PE6   INT6/AIN0
    D8 CARD_CS A8 PB4   ADC11/PCINT4
    D9# LCD_CS A9 PB5 PWM16 OC1A/#OC4B/ADC12/PCINT5
    D10# DC_LCD A10 PB6 PWM16 OC1B/0c4B/ADC13/PCINT6
    D11# MUXB PB7 PWM8/16 0C0A/OC1C/#RTS/PCINT7
    D12 MUXC/TKD5A11 PD6   T1/#OC4D/ADC9
    D13# MUXD PC7 PWM10 CLK0/OC4A
    A0 KEY D18 PF7   ADC7
    A1 TKD0 D19 PF6   ADC6
    A2 TKD1 D20 PF5   ADC5
    A3 TKD2 D21 PF4   ADC4
    A4 TKD3 D22 PF1   ADC1
    A5