The Arduino Robot is the result of the collective effort from an international team looking at how science can be made fun to learn. This means you can learn exactly how it's made and use its design as the starting point for your own robots.
This allows the Robot to appear to a connected computer as a virtual (CDC) serial / COM port.Īs always with Arduino, every element of the platform – hardware, software and documentation – is freely available and open-source.
Both processors have built-in USB communication, eliminating the need for a secondary processor. Programming the robot is similar to the process with the Arduino Leonardo.
Each of the boards is a full Arduino board programmable using the Arduino IDE.īoth Motor and Control boards are microcontroller boards based on the ATmega32u4 ( The Robot has many of its pins mapped to on-board sensors and actuators.
The Motor Board controls the motors, and the Control Board reads sensors and decides how to operate.
The robot has two processors, one on each of its two boards. The Arduino Robot is the first official Arduino on wheels.