Turtlebot 3
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:44 pm
I note that the new Turtlebot 3 has an STM32F746 of some flavor:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robo ... nd-modular
Presumably this is to handle the hard real-time tasks of motor control, servos, etc, because the robot is targeted at running ROS, which requires Linux and an MMU. ROS does run on a RasPi, however, so I expect most people playing with the Turtlebot 3 will use a RasPi, at least to start. The board and microcontroller firmware are supposed to be open source, so maybe we have another interesting platform for a MicroPython port?
I'm not sure how to get hold of one of these units yet, but when the OSRF people get back from the conference in Korea I'll quiz them a little more.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robo ... nd-modular
Presumably this is to handle the hard real-time tasks of motor control, servos, etc, because the robot is targeted at running ROS, which requires Linux and an MMU. ROS does run on a RasPi, however, so I expect most people playing with the Turtlebot 3 will use a RasPi, at least to start. The board and microcontroller firmware are supposed to be open source, so maybe we have another interesting platform for a MicroPython port?
I'm not sure how to get hold of one of these units yet, but when the OSRF people get back from the conference in Korea I'll quiz them a little more.