Product Description
The Baby Orangutan B-328 is a very compact but complete robot controller, packing a high-performance ATmega328P AVR microcontroller (with 32 KB of program memory and 2 KB of RAM) and two motor drive channels in the same 24-pin form factor as competing units that include just a microcontroller. You can connect your battery, sensors, and motors directly to this small module to make a miniature robot, or you can use the Baby Orangutan as an auxiliary controller in larger robots.
- input voltage: 5 V to 13.5 V (15 V absolute maximum)
- two bidirectional motor ports can deliver ~1 A continuous (3 A peak) per channel
- programmable 20 MHz Atmel ATmega328P AVR microcontroller (32 KB flash, 2 KB RAM, 1 KB EEPROM)
- 18 user I/O lines, 16 of which can be used for digital I/O and 8 of which can be used as analog input channels
- 1 user LED
- user potentiometer tied to ADC7
- 20 MHz external resonator
- pinout is compatible with the Orangutan SV-328 and 3pi robot, so the same code will generally work on all of these devices
Included components
The compact module can be used as a DIP component on breadboards or prototyping boards, or the pin-less versions can be used for space-constrained installations in miniature robots. The 0.1″ header pins are included with the Baby Orangutan but are not soldered in. Power pins, one of the motor outputs, and several I/O lines are all accessible from one side to enable use of the Baby Orangutan as a single in-line pin (SIP) package for applications that do not require all of the I/O lines. The small size and low cost of the Baby Orangutan makes it a perfect option for primary control of small robots or for auxiliary control on larger robots.
Dimensions
- Size: 1.20" x 0.70"
- Weight: 1.5 g. without headers
General specifications
- Processor: ATmega328P @ 20 MHz
- RAM size: 2048 bytes
- Program memory size: 32 Kbytes
- Motor driver: TB6612FNG
- Motor channels: 2
- User I/O lines: 18. 16 can be used as digital I/Os and 8 can be used as analog inputs.
- Max current on a single I/O: 40 mA
- Minimum operating voltage: 5 V
- Maximum operating voltage: 13.5 V
- Continuous output current per channel: 1 A
- Peak output current per channel: 3 A
- Maximum PWM frequency: 80 kHz
- Reverse voltage protection?: Y
- External programmer required?: Y
- LCD included?: N
