PyBoard

Published on 2014-11-13 in Pico-Kubik quadruped robot.

The 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.

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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.

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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…