Noduino
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Contents
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 ?
Proposal design
Use an AtMega from automotive serie as the ATmega64C1 with a CAN transceiver or just a DIP connector to let user choose his transceiver.
Programmer
look AVR section.
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.
OS considerations
Perharps we need realtime thread support so FreeRTOS could be a good option. octrium use CanFestival and FreeRTOS on their product but don't release their sources. useful topics :
