Noduino

Goal

Provide a smart , small and cheap board for actuators / sensors / in automation and robotic context . Small units could be easily integrate in robotic_arm , little robot like swarmbot , sensors projects like CARACA ... more on robotic

Features

• Smart , using CAN network and industrial quality software , to create a distributed network. see CANopen for software.
• cheap and small :
  • no electronic parts to program/debug as Arduino mini pro , Lilypad Arduino ... use a CAN bootloader ( or a programmer )
  • no switch to set Node-ID , use LSS fastscan ( or set it with the programmer )
  • no battery ?

Possible programmer

JTAG

look http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/CAN_AVR#JTAG

Serial with a bootloader

• UartSB from seeedstudio
• FTDI Basic Breakout from sparkfun

relative commercial products

• http://www.candip.com/candip-m162.htm ATMega162 + CAN controller SJA1000
• http://www.grifo.com/CAN/uk_gm1.htm Atmel T89C51CC01

MCU considerations

Atmel AVR ( see CAN_AVR ) or others products if AVR are not suitable for our constraints. Good alternative could be AT89x microcontrollers based on the 8051 architecture, industrial standard.