The Arduino Robot is the first official Arduino on wheels. The robot has two processors, one on each of its two boards. The Motor Board controls the motors, and the Control Board reads sensors and decides how to operate. Each of the boards is a full Arduino board programmable using the Arduino IDE.
Both Motor and Control boards are microcontroller boards based on the ATmega32u4 (datasheet). The Robot has many of its pins mapped to on-board sensors and actuators. Programming the robot is similar to the process with the Arduino Leonardo. Both processors have built-in USB communication, eliminating the need for a secondary processor. This allows the Robot to appear to a connected computer as a virtual (CDC) serial / COM port. As always with Arduino, every element of the platform – hardware, software and documentation – is freely available and open-source. This means you can learn exactly how it's made and use its design as the starting point for your own robots. The Arduino Robot is the result of the collective effort from an international team looking at how science can be made fun to learn. Arduino is now on wheels, come ride with us!
Technical Specifications
Model
ROBOT
Microcontroller
ATmega32u4
Operating Voltage
5V
Input Voltage
5V through flat cable
Digital I/O Pins
5
PWM Channels
6
Analog Input Channels
4 (of the Digital I/O pins)
Analog Input Channels (multiplexed)
8
DC Current per I/O Pin
40 mA
Flash Memory
32 KB (ATmega32u4) of which 4 KB used by bootloader
SRAM
2.5 KB (ATmega32u4)
EEPROM (internal)
1 KB (ATmega32u4)
EEPROM (external)
512 Kbit (I2C)
Clock Speed
16 MHz
Keypad
5 keys
Knob
potentiomenter attached to analog pin
Full color LCD
over SPI communication
SD card reader
for FAT16 formatted cards
Speaker
8 Ohm
Digital Compass
provides deviation from the geographical north in degrees
