The following page has a list of some schools + users that have used our controller boards in courses and project work.

The OricomTech OOBOT40 Robot Control Computers are designed for controlling small robotic devices, and for general industrial-control applications. They package the OOPic microcontroller chip in combination with one of our BOT40 Controller Boards. These boards will mount the OOPic chip and also many regular PIC chips, and can be jumpered for use either way. The OOBOT40 boards can control motors and R/C servos, and interface many different sensors. They can be used for simple bots, but have plenty of expansion capability for growth into sophisticated systems - room for bumper, line-following, fire-fighting, ultrasonics, and other sensor circuitry. The prototyping area allows custom circuitry, such as for sensor interfacing, to be wired on board.

OOBOT40-II Info generic controller with more than 20-servo headers OOBOT40-3 Info controller with 2-Amp h-bridge and overcurrent-limiting OOBOT40 Info controller with 1-Amp h-bridges

All OOBOT40 boards ship with a 32 Kbyte EEPROM, plus latest OOPic III+ firmware.

Feature Comparison feature OOBOT40-II OOBOT40-3 orig OOBOT40 CPU (supplied) * OOPic III+ CPU frequency 20 Mhz Total I/O lines ** 29 A/D channels up to 7 Servo Ports (3-pin) more than 20 10 8 I²C serial EEPROM *** up to 32 KByte I²C buss headers 2 Parallel Programming PRG header built-in Serial Programming via main RS-232 port RS-232 channels **** 1+ 1+ (daisy-chain) 1+ Full H-bridges ***** - 2 ea (2 Amp) 4 ea (1 Amp) High-Current Drivers - 2 ea (to 5+ Amp) 3 ea (to 5 Amp) Indicator LEDs 4 2 4 Voltage Regulators 2 (one fixed, one adjustable) 1 1 Prototyping Area 10x9 pads 10x10 pads 10x12 pads Size 3.6" x 3.0" (91 x 76 mm) 4.1" x 3.0" (104 x 76 mm) 3.9" x 3.0" (99 x 76 mm) * = will mount any 40-pin DIP OOPic and many PIC chips. ** = on OOBOT40, 18 I/O lines are non-dedicated, on OOBOT40-3, 19 I/O lines are non-dedicated. The rest are devoted to piezo and h-bridges. *** = will mount 4KB (24LC32), 8KB (24LC64), and 32KB (24LC256) eeproms. A 2nd eeprom chip can be wired into proto area, if required. **** = one chan of MAX232 wired to cpu UART, 2nd chan is spare and can be used with alternate serial objects; OOBOT40-3 has wiring for daisy-chain RS232 network. ***** = OOBOT40-3 has adjustable motor current-limit circuitry. High-Reliability Design the OOBOT40 Controller Boards are distinquished by having significant amounts of cpu protection built onto the pcbs, to help preclude damage from hookup errors, backwards polarities, etc. all boards have a large, heat-sinked TO-220 voltage regulator for powering external circuitry. all chips are socketed for easy replacement, in case of inadvertent damage. great for learning environments and beginners in electronics. Built-in Upgrade Paths the OOBOT40 controllers are designed to not go obsolete in the coming years. first, all OOBOT40 boards will mount any of the 40-pin DIP versions of OOPic controller, and provide built-in capability for both serial and parallel programming. secondly, the boards are easily upgradeable to new OOPic firmware versions when available, simply by swapping chips. in addition, the OOPic chips can easily be swapped out for regular 40-pin PIC micros, for programmers who wish to write their own firmware - see the BOT40 page for details. OOBOT40 Differences The OOBOT40 and OOBOT40-II Controller Boards are virtually identical, except that the original OOBOT40 has h-bridges and high-current drivers, while the OOBOT40-II foregoes the h-bridges and drivers, to provide a more generic style board for general OOPic applications. This board can directly interface and control up to 21 R/C style servos, compared to 8 for the original board. In addition, the OOBOT40-3 board has the two smaller 1-Amp h-bridges of the OOBOT40 replaced with one dual h-bridge chip with 2-Amp/channel capability. It also has motor current-sense + limiting circuitry, plus RS-232 daisy-chain capability. Typical applications include: small robot controllers general embedded controllers servo controllers motor controllers closed-loop control systems robot walkers motion control and animatronics mini-sumos Both OOBOT40 and OOBOT40-II boards meet mini-sumo size limits.

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