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PyBoard
11/13/2014 at 20:52 • 0 commentsThe pyboard has arrived, so I quickly made a servo shield for it, and tested the servos first with the pyb.Servo and then directly with pyb.Timer. Both seem to be working fine.
You can see that I had to make some adapters for the servo plugs. The pyboard uses 2.54 raster, and so does the servo breakout board, while the servo plugs and sockets have 1.27 raster.
I'm still waiting for VoCore to test it too. It's smaller, has 1.27 raster, runs actual Linux, includes WiFi and an USB host that I could use to connect a camera module from a laptop -- so overall, much more interesting to me. I can see that they got PWM to work on the GPIO pins, so it should be workable...
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Deciding on the brains
11/02/2014 at 21:12 • 0 commentsI'm still waiting for the brains of this thing to arrive. It's going to be either a Vocore board, with the UNIX version of the Micropython running on top of OpenWRT, and possibly a Pro Mini for the servo controller, or the original PyBoard. The OpenMV project looks like it would be perfect for this, but it's not available yet.
I really hope that I will get it to work with Vocore, because that would mean I have WiFi and USB host -- so a possibility of connecting some laptop webcam module to it.