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Sun, 05 Mar 2006
some production notes on the SRV-1 robot and base station radio
Here's one of the production units that will ship out at the end of the week.
There are still a few loose ends to wrap up - one is the battery pack mounting, and the other is the camera mounting. For the battery pack, we're trying some velcro "dots", which will allow us to separate the pack from the robot for shipping. With the camera, we've avoided any permanent mounting, as we are looking at the eventual possibility of a dome or some kind of cosmetic cover to which the camera would mount. For now, the camera will be attached to the frame with a removable clip, and tethered to the controller board with a 2" cable.
The only other bit of unfinished business is assembly of the new base station radio boards. It may not be obvious from the photo, but this will actually be a USB dongle - we're just waiting for the USB connectors, which are due in the next day or so. The dongle version of the radio is a lot less expensive to produce, and it uses a nice Silicon Labs CP2102 USB-to-UART bridge chip, which has better driver support than the first radios we used.
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