In designing this robot, I’ve realized that every Arduino board I’ve seen so far has been lacking one thing that I wanted to see: the ability to mount it to a platform using screw holes. I began designing my own, using the Arduino 2009 reference design as a starting point. However, I started designing it at 0430 and finished right around 0515. I’ve posted a PDF of the schematic as well as a PNG below for critique. If it looks good, and once I find some money, I’m going to order the PCB through batchPCB and give it a test run. After that, I’ll consider actually publishing the Eagle files - if I found it useful, someone else might too. If someone knows of a project with an Arduino with screw holes, I’d be interested. Due to the fact that building a robot is what motivated it, I’m nicknaming it the Roboduino for now until I can think of another name.
PDF: http://isomk.sdf.org/brokenlcd/roboduino.pdf
A full-size version of the schematic is available at http://twitpic.com/14j3xz.
February 21, 2010, 12:21pm
