rutgers/ieee — Issue #37: Arduino for the Dashboard
Author: itsnotmyfault1
Created: 2011-12-31 05:28:58+00:00
State: open

The Arduino microcontroller would sort of be a bridge between the computer and the rest of the electronics.
This will update the dot-matrix display, control the autonomous light, and (possibly) interact with the e-stop.

Some inputs are from the computer (like whether we're in autonomous mode or not. digital), some are from discrete components on the robot (temperature sensors, voltage sensors, etc. might be analog).

output probably digital. Find/use library for interface with dot-matrix displays.

It should be pretty easy to get either of these minimally working without touching ROS. Once they work, it will be very easy to integrate them into ROS because Adam wrote great documentation for interfacing Arduinos with ROS.

Display is 8x32 pixels. Datasheets are in Dropbox: IEEE/IGVC/electrical/Dashboard/DotMatix