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A project log for ODrive - High performance motor control

Hobby brushless motors are incredibly cheap and powerful. However we need a way to make robots out of them. ODrive is that way.

oskar-weiglOskar Weigl • 12/03/2016 at 09:51•9 Comments

The time has finally come for the manufacturing run of ODrive v3.1. They are now on the way, and should arrive early to mid January.

At this stage, around 20 board kits are going out the people who signed up to the "Inital development" phase.

Since the boars are going out to just a small group of early developers, I will have the time to personally get you up to speed with the codebase and help to get going with the hardware. Then, together, we can prepare some stuff that is a bit more stable and a bit more documented for when the alpha testing begins.

The cost for me to get this small batch of boards manufactured was $96 per board, so that is the amount I need to ask for a kit, plus shipping.

The kit involves basically everything seen in the above picture, and consists of:

I hope that ODrive will be able to help you make an awesome robotics project, thank you so much for your contribution to helping people have access to open robotics hardware and software.
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volatile666 wrote 12/14/2016 at 19:30 • point

Beautiful! I did sign up back then, am I 'in'? Ill be busy until the end of January, wont be able to do any work until then...

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Oskar Weigl wrote 12/15/2016 at 06:35 • point

I sent an email to everyone who said they would be interested in the "inital development" phase. You can PM me your email you used in the form, and I can check if your entry is there?

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Joshua Elsdon wrote 12/14/2016 at 15:37 • point

Woo!

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Yann wrote 12/08/2016 at 16:15 • point

Hi, 

Nice ! I'm looking closely this project for a automatic lawn mower :)

I 'mdiscovering CircuitHub with your project. For information what's the cost for all the 28 boards ?

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Oskar Weigl wrote 12/08/2016 at 16:22 • point

Oh cool!
So it ended up being $96 per board for that quantity.
Cheers!

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Yann wrote 12/09/2016 at 09:45 • point

And do you plan a production board by yourself with a defined target price ? :)

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Oskar Weigl wrote 12/09/2016 at 11:16 • point

The target manufacturing cost is $50 (at least for the 2 ch version). If I decide to develop this product full time, maybe I will put a bit of markup on it to fund the development. We'll see.

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volatile666 wrote 12/04/2016 at 21:07 • point

Looking great! I like the big green clamps - perfect to quickly connect and disconnect motors.

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Oskar Weigl wrote 12/05/2016 at 04:01 • point

Thanks!

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