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Thu, 08 May 2008
New Matchport / Zigbee radio board for SRV-1 Blackfin
Abe Howell's Robotics - www.abotics.com - has developed a new radio board for the SRV-1 Blackfin which hosts either the Lantronix Matchport 802.11b/g or Digi/Maxstream Zigbee 802.14 radio, and interfaces to a second microcontroller operating at 5V. As many microcontrollers operate at 5V instead of the 3.3V we use for the Blackfin, this level shifting a very nice feature.
The new board is open source, with all schematics published on the Abotics website, e.g. http://www.abotics.com/ExpressPCBs/OPEN_ROBOT_MATCHPORT_BOARD_SCHEMATIC.pdf and an assembly manual is provided here - http://www.abotics.com/MatchPort_PCB_Assembly.pdf.
Visit http://abotics.com/open_robot.htm for more project details.
We're really happy to see this board, as a number of our users are interfacing the SRV-1 Blackfin camera to other robot platforms with 5V logic. Also, this represents the first 3rd-party add-on board for the SRV-1 Blackfin, and we hope to see this trend continue.
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