No, actually you don’t. All the signals you need to interface to any hardware are on that HE10 connector, including the I2C signals, which I believe would also be the same pins used for TTL level serial I/O - but am still just guessing based on how other MCU’s have things wired up. Yes, it would be easier to stay with all POB hardware, but you don’t have to if you find something better.
Getting just the POB-EYE and POB-PROTO to start with and seeing exactly what you have to work with would be the best route to go. Once you know exactly what you are dealing with, you can move on to building the actual robot. There is a lot of experiementation you can do with just the POB-EYE (which I find very interesting) and the POB-PROTO, which is meant to make interfacing to other hardware easy.
I am going to download the POB-TOOLs and take a look at what is there. This may give me a better idea as to what interfaces are actually available.
Hmm sounds interesting, I really dont want to purchase the pob-proto (or the tiny version) since I want to support lynxmotion for all my robot parts. If you figure out a definite way to connect the camera/lcd to mini-abb, let me know .
I do not have any way to be sure any of the POB boards can connect to a Mini-ABB or SSC-32 at all. I have access to the same information you do, and am just telling you what I can figure out based on the current documentation and my own experience with other hardware. I would have to have an actual POB-EYE here before I could give any definite yay or nay on the connections.
It should be possible to do this, but I can not say for sure. You might try contacting the POB folks and ask them if there is an additional serial port besides the one used for programming that can be used to connect to other serial devices like the SSC-32 (TTL logic or RS-232 would work, with TTL level being preferred).
Aint gona happen, however, you can connect an LCD to the ABB and a camera if it has its own controller board kind of like what the boe bot uses.
It’s going to be hard to find “bolt on” hardware that will do just as you want. I wanted a circuit board that can see, hear and speak and tilt sense all on one board and there was no such thing on the market which is why I built my own solution.
While the connections between the POB-EYE and the Mini-ABB and Atom microcontrollers can probably be made, all the video processing is going to have to be done either on the POB-EYE or some other external module.
There is going to be some custom work, whether it be in hardware, software, or both, to accomplish what they want to do. Afterall, that’s what experimentation is all about and one of the things that makes robotics so exciting.
We must boldly go where no roboticist has gone before…
Thats super impressive, you should post pics and documentation one day. Its kinda like what I want to do, Im trying to make a robot that can see and detect tilt, I wanted voice recognition (its like a dream of my brothers lol) to be able to talk to the robot but I have no clue how to get that to work so Im trying to take it a step at a time.
*edit: sorry for the d/p, didnt notice i was quoting!
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