3pi+ 32U4 Control Board
This is the control board for the 3pi+ 32U4 robot, and it is included as part of the Standard Edition, Turtle Edition, and Hyper Edition 3pi+ 32U4 kits and robots.
It can be used as a replacement part for those products, or it can be assembled with the 3pi+ Chassis Kit and a pair of 6V Micro Metal Gearmotors with extended motor shafts to create a “custom edition” 3pi+ 32U4 robot.
| Size: | 2.6" x 3.4" |
| Weight: | 20g¹ |
| Processor: | ATmega32U4 @ 16 MHz |
| RAM size | 2560 bytes |
| Program memory size: | 32 Kbytes² |
| Motor driver: | DRV8838 |
| Motor channels: | 2 |
| Minimum operating voltage: | 2.7 V |
| Maximum operating voltage: | 6.5 V |
| Continuous output current per channel: | 1.8 A |
| Logic voltage: | 5V |
| Reverse voltage protection?: | Y |
| External programmer required?: | N |
Notes:
¹ Without included hardware.
² Note that 4 KB of the MCU's 32 KB of flash memory is used by the pre-installed USB bootloader. All 32 KB is available when programming via the ISP header rather than the bootloader.N
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Pololu A-Star 32U4 drivers for Windows (version 1.3.0.0) (7k zip)
This download contains the Windows drivers for the A-Star 32U4 and the rest of our 32U4 family of boards.
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Pinout and power distribution diagrams of the 3pi+ 32U4 Control Board (1MB pdf)
