uCee (MicroCrawler) Robot with a custom MicroPython Board

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HarryOz
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Re: uCee (MicroCrawler) Robot with a custom MicroPython Board

Post by HarryOz » Thu May 19, 2016 11:34 pm

very nice, did you customize the firmware at all?

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JonHylands
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Re: uCee (MicroCrawler) Robot with a custom MicroPython Board

Post by JonHylands » Thu May 19, 2016 11:43 pm

No, other than what my brother mentioned (changing a couple board-level constants since I don't have servo ports, an accelerometer, a user switch, etc), I'm running the stock firmware.

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Re: uCee (MicroCrawler) Robot with a custom MicroPython Board

Post by HarryOz » Fri May 20, 2016 12:01 am

Awesome, any chance you can share the Protel/Altium Libraries?

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Re: uCee (MicroCrawler) Robot with a custom MicroPython Board

Post by JonHylands » Fri May 20, 2016 12:51 am

There is no chance I can share Protel/Altium libraries, because I did the design in Kicad...

The gerber files are here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3edliahao6nkp ... 2.zip?dl=0

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Re: uCee (MicroCrawler) Robot with a custom MicroPython Board

Post by HarryOz » Tue Jun 14, 2016 1:46 am

Thanks for the files. Can you shed some light on booting the device from USB and loading micropython? is it a matter of plug and play if the schematic is designed properly?

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Re: uCee (MicroCrawler) Robot with a custom MicroPython Board

Post by JonHylands » Tue Jun 14, 2016 2:20 am

You need to get the board into DFU mode, and then its just a question of using dfu-util to load micropython. The tools and techniques are identical for my board versus the official pyboard.

https://github.com/micropython/micropyt ... are-Update

- Jon

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