Arduino boards and shields
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In this page, you will find :
- The Arduino boards I have used,
- The Arduino shields I have used,
- The Arduino shields I have built,
- The tools used.
For their usage, please see :
- The robotic web page.
Arduino boards
UNO R3
The basic board (32k of flash and 2k of RAM) with an ATmega328 processor running at 16 MHz.
chipKIT UNO32
A fast board (32 bits at 80 MHz, 128k of flash and 16k of RAM) from Digilent with a PIC32MX320F128H processor from Microchip.
UNO compatible, you must just take care of some libraries not compatible with the PIC processor used.
The brain of my "Robot 2" and the board I have used more often.
MEGA 2560
A board more powerful than the UNO (256k of flash and 8k of RAM) with an ATMega2560 processor running at 16 MHz.
The brain of my Prusa i3 3D printer.
I have also used it to debug UNO programs taking benefit of the second harware serial link.
chipKIT MAX32
A fast and powerful board (32 bits at 80 MHz, 512k of flash and 128k of RAM) from Digilent with a PIC32MX795F512L processor from Microchip.
Just tested but already not really used.
Bought Arduino Shields
LCDKeypad Shield
A DFRobot board with 2 lines of 16 characters display and some keys (5 plus one for reset).
Used for "Robot 2".
I have modified it in order to be compatible with the chipKIT UNO32 board because the keys scanning is done with an analog input and a resistive network designed for an Arduino board using 5 V power supply.
The UNO32 board using 3.3 V, you have to modify this network adding a 3.9 kOhm resistor as shown on the second picture and modifying the key thresholds in the software.
ITead 3.2 graphic Shield
A graphical display (ITDB02) 320x240, color (65k), with touchscreen and interface with a SD memory card for "MEGA" boards.
Successfully tested with a MEGA 2560.
Adafruit Motor Shield
An Adafruit board (Adafruit Motor Shield V2.0) able to supply 4 DC motors (or 2 stepped motors) and 2 RC servos.
You have just to define the level of the I/O pins (with the small solder in the middle of the bottom of the board).
Used for "Robot 2".
Seeedstudio Bluetooth Shield
A Bluetooth shield from Seeedstudio with 2 Grove interfaces. Uses a CSR module that you can in fact directly interconnect with the Arduino board (cheaper).
Used for "Robot 2" with a chipKIT UNO32 board with the hardware serial link (not having being able to find a suitable serial link library software for the chipKIT board).
Consequence, you have to unplug the bluetooth shield each time you download a program in the ARduino board... Or use a MEGA or MAX32 board taking benefit of the additional hardware serial link.
Velleman KA01 RGB Shield
A RGB shield kit (a mounted version also exist) from Velleman to supply a RGB LED.
Until now just tested, but should be used for a (mini) DMX spotlight.
chipKit I/O Shield
A Digilent board with an OLED 128x32 display, some keys, some switches, some FETs, a potentiometer, some leds, an 32 ko I2C E2PROM I2C (24LC256) and a temperature I2C sensor (TNC75A).
Just used for testing.
Built Arduino Shields
"8 servos" Shield
A board being able to interface with 8 RC servos.
Used for my robotic experiments.
I will do a specifig web page to give the details (schematic, wiring,...).
Arduino tools
Multiplatform Arduino IDE
I use the modified version of the Arduino IDE which is compatible with the chipKIT boards I am using.
At the exception of some compatibility libraries problems with the chipKIT boards, this "Mpide 0023-windows-20140316" release is stable a reliable.