I will follow this up with some technical specs. But for now behold the beautiful Bot Propeller!
The demo board is missing two connectors, but it’s essentially done and ready for testing!
I will follow this up with some technical specs. But for now behold the beautiful Bot Propeller!
The demo board is missing two connectors, but it’s essentially done and ready for testing!
Looks great. But as you mentioned it looks like it is missing the power and USB connectors. Once those are hooked up, you should have a lot of fun testing it out. Let me know if you need any help. It may take me awhile to refresh myself in SPIN
Kurt
Nice!
Thats gonna be fun to play with!
Very Nice!
Nice board! the “Propeller Head” people should love it!
Alan KM6VV
Hummm…
Awesome… !!!
Awesome! This looks like a much better alternative to the Propeller Servo Controller, as it actually has connections for sensors (from what I see). When are you going to tease us with more details?
-1
Looks great and now that you have free ground shipping on $100+ orders…
Nice looking piece of hardware! Good job guys!
Love to give it a try ones!
Xan
That looks pretty cool. Was it intended to be connected to the Bot Board II?
It’s more like an option that would be used in place of it.
seems pretty cool. wonder how itll work on my BRAT…
Do you have an idea when these will be available?
We’ve run into some technical snags. I’ve got a plan B. Wish I knew more about how much longer it will be.
OK. Thanks for the update.
Hi:
When this is done, how do you see using them?
Will they be just for new robots, or will you also retro fit existing ones?
Thanks,
Lawrence
Any news on this board? I’ve been looking at the propeller chip since it was first announced, would love to get my grubby little hands on it…
What kind of snag did you hit Jim? Is a re-spin of the board required? If it makes you feel any better, I had to respin one of my boards at my work four times before I got it right…
I dropped the ball on these boards. Well myself and several others… Ken told me about a propeller ver. 2 he was working on, so I was a little nervous about trying to make the board. I was concerned it would be obsolete as soon as it was finished. We decided to go for it and see how it worked out. The boards were made but we could never get them to work. I should have sent them to parallax but I let some one continue to work on them. In January I decided enough was enough as no progress was being made. I have the boards here and sadly have not done anything with them. I decided to shelf the attempt and concentrate on something that makes more sense. That being a 32 bit Arduino variant. I also decided to wait a little longer to see if I should go Atmel or Pic.
A bot prop! Nice!
Would have been fun to see a propeller implementation. From the picture you posted of the board, at first glance it appeared you had voltage level translators and a hardware ADC built-in. I don’t believe any of the other propeller boards on the market have these features. Any consideration to an ARM based board using something like a Cortex M4F?