ROADTEST POLL-- Which of These Boards Would You Likely Decide to Roadtest?

Here are a few more boards that I would like to get your feedback on whether element145 should offer them as roadtests. If you have a bit of time, I'd appreciate your vote.

seeed studiojetson nano

Seeed Studio Jetson Nano

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cytron Maker Pi RP2040

Cytron Maker Pi RP2040

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Avnet Maaxboard

AVNET Maaxboard

Datasheet

Arduino Nano Every

Arduino Nano Every

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Gough Lui over 3 years ago in reply to ntewinkel

I'm not using them directly right now - but they seem to be hooked up to standard GPIO:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ECJ4EFYddiaqJgfghZgIUYV5KtBZXqOn/view

The above is the schematic for the board showing just how each of the six Grove connectors are connected.

- Gough
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ntewinkel over 3 years ago in reply to Gough Lui

Gough Lui said:
I got one of these Cytron boards

Hi Gough,

Are you using the Grove connectors on that board at all? Do they work with standard servos, or at least have adapters for that? Or are the just for specific Grove-compatible add-ons?

Thanks!
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Gough Lui over 3 years ago in reply to robogary

I got one of these Cytron boards (Maker Pi Pico) and it's pretty convenient mainly as a breakout ... it's also very reasonably priced:

https://www.cytron.io/p-maker-pi-pico

Never tried the one on this post but it seems very motor-oriented for robotics perhaps ...

- Gough
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robogary over 3 years ago

Cool boards - the cytron maker would be fun, wish it wouldve dropped a couple sensors onboard like a compass chip or gyros.
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ntewinkel over 3 years ago

All of those are interesting choices.

For me, the Maaxboard and the Nano Every are redundant - I have a Raspberry Pi, and I have several choices of boards that can (probably?) do for me what the Every does. So I'd be interested and happy to try them out, but not for the effort and commitment required for a proper RoadTest.

The Cytron Maker is really cool, as it seems to have all the things I want for robot arms and robot cars - but I'm not familiar with Grove connectors as I have none of those, so I'm not sure if it would interface easily with my existing robot platforms (standard servo connectors, mainly).

The Jetson Nano is also very interesting, and it looks like it would be a very nice replacement for a Raspberry Pi based server, given the 16GB eMMC, which for my tiny bits of data being collected should be plenty for a long while. My hesitation is whether it is compatible enough with Raspberry Pi to make those things easy - I'm guessing most likely the server parts can all install to whatever Linux system it uses in the same way as before, but can it run Python software that is intended for a Raspberry Pi ? (the sprinkler control software is very Pi biased). And the other "wish they included that" item is that the M.2 slot doesn't support SSDs. I'm not sure if that's important, given the eMMC?
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charlieo21 over 3 years ago

I think the more interesting board is the Cytron Maker Pi RP2040, also it is more versatile and easier to test.
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shabaz over 3 years ago

There are a couple that look interesting, but I think the first one could be quite popular! It's a very good way to get some AI based learning in (I've been using it too).

I can imagine the RP2040 board and MaaxBoard being popular too.
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