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Some new eCogs - Buzzer, Servo, Motor, ISP Programmer

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jack-gassettJack Gassett 07/11/2016 at 22:010 Comments

I made some new eCogs that have been sent out to the OSHPark.

Buzzer eCog - To generate tones like with an old PC speaker. This is in preparation for the GadgetBox testing plan for manufacturing. I want the buzzer to sound if the self test has failed.

ISP Programmer eCog - So to go right along with the buzzer is an eCog that can be used to do the initial programming of the GadgetBox over a ISP programming header.

A little more exciting is an eCog that allows up to 16 Servo's to be controlled. I made this to work with a cheap module that can be bought off eBay. But it looks very similar to the AdaFruit Servo Shield. So I might make another revision of this board and lay it all out in the eCog PCB format instead of using this big module board.

Finally, I couldn't find a nice Motor control module to use so I found the nice Motor Shield over at Adafruit. The cool thing is that it uses I2C which will free up pins on the GadgetBox. So I went ahead and adapted the Motor Shield 2.0 design to fit on an eCog. This is going to be a pretty handy eCog.

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