80 What is the F1 Board? (Robot Controllers)
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This article is from the Robotics FAQ, by Kevin Dowling nivek@cs.cmu.edu with numerous contributions by others.
80 What is the F1 Board? (Robot Controllers)
A PCB board set designed around the 68HC11f1 microprocessor, which I
have made available as a non-profit enterprise to all you folks on the
net. To help those of you in the US, Daniel Mauch of the Seattle
Robotics Society agreed to act as a distributor.
Well, my first shipment of these PCB's to Daniel lasted about a week,
I didn't realise they were going to be so popular! He has now received
the second shipment from me, so if anyone is interested in these
boards please Email Daniel at dmauch@seanews.akita.com
"'F1 Board:"
Size:
118 x 80 mm (4.6" x 3.2")
Connectors:
Power 6.5 - 35vdc (or 5vdc if you jumper the 7805 socket)
RS485 serial communications
RS232 serial communications
SPI interface (Same as Miniboard connectors but
Master/Slave switchable)
8 Analog inputs
Port A connector
Control bus connector for additional boards
Configuration: 32K Ram memory 32K EPROM (or another 32K Ram -
switch select) MODA and MODB jumpers Analog Vrh and Vrl jumper
to +5 and 0v or user selectable
Motor Board:
Size
107 x 59 mm ( 4.2" x 2.3")
Connectors:
8 Digital inputs
8 Digital outputs
4 x DC motors
2 x Stepper motors (less than 1.5 Amps each)
2 x R/C servo motors
Configuration:
5 x base address selections (allows for multiple boards to be
used)
Stepper / Servo switch selectable
Separate power supply for DC and Stepper motors.
Cost:
F1 board $17
Motor board $13
EPROM (w/Buffalo) $11
Postage $5
This board was designed primarily for embedded control and small
robotics applications, and as such it is as versatile as I could get
it. For more details there is complete documentation (in postscript
format) in the file [16]f1v11doc.zip at mit. A number of other F1
related files are available in the same directory.
Pete Dunster
Dept. of Mech. Eng.
University of Wollongong
Northfields Ave
Wollongong
N.S.W. 2522 AUSTRALIA
tel: +61-42-213597
fax: +61-42-213101
net: p.dunster@uow.edu.au
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