Analog inputs on bot board

Please excuse my ignorance here but I am new to these microcontrollers. If I am using the mini atom bot board with the SSC-32, I can have up to :confused: 28 analog inputs from the bot board and still control 32 servos with the SSC-32? :confused:

The SSC-32 controls the servos from it’s own ATMega8 microcontroller, and you just have to send serial data to it from your PC or from your microcontroller on the ABB.
The ABB does not control the servos connected to the SSC-32 directly (it just sends serial data to the SSC-32), so it has all of the pins available. But you definitely don’t have 28 analog inputs on the bot board. You have 4 analog inputs on the board, marked AX0 to 3, and the rest are all digital pins (input/output), P0 to P15.
If you have an SSC-32 for servos, you would use these pins mostly for sensor inputs, but if you didn’t have the SSC-32, you could use the digital pins on the ABB to send pulses to your servos.

Have fun with your electronics experiments!

Bietz

You do not get 28 analog inputs. There are 4 analog inputs on the Basic Atom and 8 analog inputs on the Atom PRO. These are microcontroller chips you plug into the Atom Bot Board.

8-Dale

oh I didn’t know the Atom PRO had 8 analog inputs… Which ones are they on the ABB?

They are P0 - P3 and P16 - P19.

8-Dale

Is this the pin number you would use in the code or the actual pin number printed on the ABB? (I can’t really find P16 to P19, and AX0 - AX3 would be something else then, no?)

These are the actual pin numbers you use in your code and what is silk screened on the ABB. The Basic Atom IDE calls the first four analog inputs (all it has) AX0 - AX3, but they are P0 - P3 for the Atom PRO IDE.

8-Dale