I’m wondering if Lyxmotion has any thoughts on a bringing in a higher end microcontroller to their product line. I think the Basic Atom is a great controller for R/C and entry level projects and allows folks to easily get started.
For those looking to go further, it would be great if Lyxmotion offered a micro/board that could be used for projects like: quad encoders, simple video, ethernet, etc. There are a lot of inexpensive 32-bit micros with plenty of nice peripherals…any interest in making an ‘ABB’ for one of them? (ARM, Coldfire, etc.)
Absent that, any suggestions…
The Netburner Mod5213 (module) would be a prime candidate for a super bot board, as would the Atmel AVR7000 series chips, although they are not made in module form. I would love to see a super bot board for the Mod5213 though, but don’t think it could be done in the same form factor as the current bot board .
Of course, I’d also love to see a Renesas H8/SX (1663 or 1664) module.
EDIT: I was just thinking this would probably not happen anytime soon, because the Mod5213 sells for a lower price than the Atom chips and would cut into Atom sales, even though the Mod5213 has more capabilities.
It’s too bad the Atom chips aren’t less expensive.
8-Dale
Exactly! I’m seriously considering their Dev kit ($99) for my next controller. It’s got most of the periphs I’m looking for (no TCP/IP, no real video processing capability though…). Throw in a C/C++ compiler with classes for the periphs, serial debugger, nice IDE, and proven RTOS (uC/OS). Here’s an abstract of a university UAV using two Netburner boards…
The only pain is the 3.3v signals and lack of good (ABB style) connectors. My thought is to make a daughter card that plugs in to the dev board for those nice three pin connectors the ABB has along with (jumpered) voltage dividers and a switched power supply. I’ve used ExpressPCBfor similar boards…
The drag is it’s hard to make a one off board as nice as the ABB without spending $100. I just thought I’d see if there was any plans Lyxmotion might have in this space. I know there are lots of market segments in the hobby robotics space but there is a trend for more powerful, networkable, bots that can handle higher bandwidth sensors…
camera processing would make lynxmotion the ultimate bot board supplier…but who wants to be the ultimate 
probably more people than are willing to pay for it.