Pi -based artificial brain
Called Erle-Brain 3, which can be a RPi2-based artificial brain for building robots and drones. This brain is an upgrade of Erle-Brain which includes a Snappy Ubuntu Core image, access to a cloud-based app store, support for ROS and APM (which helps building drones easily).
PXFmini
Erle Robotics´s artificial brain cames after a great success with PXFmini, an open autopilot shield for the Raspberry Pi. This autopilot shield allows anyone to create ready-to-fly autopilots with support for Dronecode’s APM flight stack priced at only 69 €.
The
shield has been designed with low cost in mind and specially for the
Raspbery Pi Zero (it is also compatible with other Raspberry Pi boards).
Find below some of its features:
A tiny yet powerful design
The PXFmini
shield weighs only 15 grams and on it’s 31mm x 71 mm embeds all the
power electronics necessary to comply with most of the existing
components for drones using its 2xI2C and UART ports.
The design is based on previous iterations with proper APM
upstream support and provides 8 PWM output channels as well as a PPMSUM
input.
A shield for sensing
PXFmini includes a 9 axes IMU (MPU9250), a digital barometer (MS5611) and an ADC for voltage measurements.
An improved experience
Forget about breaking those DF13 connectors. We’ve decided
to bet on the new JST GH connectors (adopted by the Dronecode
Foundation) to provide an amazing new experience. We’ve also partnered
with manufacturers to provide DF13 to JST GH converters.
Open design
All the schematics are open
to hack around. They’ll be released as soon as the boards start shipping. Shipping will start in early February 2016.
Erle-Brain 2.
Erle-Spider includes the latest version of our artificial brains (not released yet) for robots and drones:
- 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7, 1 GB RAM
- USB, Ethernet, I2C, UART, HDMI and more.
- Gravity sensor, gyroscope, digital compass, pressure sensor and temperature sensor.
- Snappy Ubuntu Core
- ROS Indigo
Erle-Brain 2 will have support for ROS, APM and several other frameworks for robot and drone applications development.
Erle-Brain 3
Erle-Brain 3 Technical specs
| Processor | 1.2GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-53 CPU, 1GB RAM, Broadcom VideoCore IV |
| WiFi | Create your own WiFi network using the internal WiFi module (802.11n, 2.4 GHz) |
| I/Os | 4 USB ports, Full HDMI port, 10/100 Ethernet, Combined 3.5mm audio jack and composite |
| Camera (optional) | 8MP Fixed focus lens, 2592 x 1944 pixel static images, supports 1080p30, 720p60 and 640x480p60/90 video record |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 4.1 Classic, Bluetooth Low Energy, and use game console remote control |
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