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Wed, 20 Feb 2008
Test firmware; revised (simplified) bundling of SRV-1 Blackfin board set
In response to user requests, we have recently added a number of features to the SRV-1 firmware, including a failsafe mode as well as support for servos and electronic speed controllers, ultrasonic ranging modules, accelerometers, and I2C devices, as discussed here on the robot forum. While the firmware is available for testing, it hasn't yet been formally released, as a few image processing functions still need to be added, but this is expected to wrap up by the end of the month.
Many of the firmware requests are coming from users who are building their own motorized robot bases or UAVs, and we are finding an increasing number of users want the SRV-1 Blackfin board set without the motorized base. We are glad to see this trend, and to accommodate this, we have reorganized our SRV-1 board bundle to include all of the electronics of the SRV-1 robot except for the battery and motorized base, i.e. the SRV-1 Blackfin Camera board (500MHz BF537 Blackfin and OV9655 1.3Mpix camera), combo radio/motor board, Lantronix Matchport WiFi module, antenna, and 2 laser pointers.
A complete description of the bundle is found here.
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