Motoruino vs Roboduino, the battle of robots
— April 30th, 2010
We previously covered the Motoruino project from Lisbon-based maker Guilherme Martins; some days ago I’ve seen another nice kit from Canadian Robotshop, called Roboduino. The dawn of the age of robot…
Video of both platform in action after the break.
UPDATE: [Julien] submitted a mistake I did in the embedding of images. The first image here is picturing a Romeo from Korean DFRobot. The true (yet very similar) roboduino is this.
via [CuriousInventor] and [GuilhermeMartins]
May 3rd, 2010 at 21:46:37
There is an error, the photo and the link of so-called Roboduino is in fact the Romeo from Korean DFRobot, not the Roboduino as seen here : http://store.curiousinventor.com/roboduino.html
By the way, the Romeo is very great : same 3-pin connectors as the Roboduino (confusion is easy) but on-chip L298 in SMD version (for two DC motors or 1 stepper motor).
The video is correct, showing Roboduino in action.
May 3rd, 2010 at 21:51:08
Be careful with Romeo’s power connector : it is possible to power servomotors (digital-side 3 pin connectors, separated from analog-side row) with unregulated 6 volts, but there is no protection if you remove the jumper and connect a USB –> it shutted down my laptop computer several times before I understand the problem.
If you want to see my robot with a Romeo : winning action in french robots contest here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTzJEMnjDMQ and robot description (including open source software) here : http://www.pobot.org/-Pobot-Easy-.html