The missing Spot Micro PCB is here!

2020-04-10 Dan

So you built a Spot Micro (or you want to) and – because you’re very clever – you read the instructions first. You probably noticed there’s a section where you have to build a PCB from scratch. For a lot of people, that’s beyond their skill level …for now. In the meantime, nothing should hold you back from building a sweet walking robot dog, amiright? Cool.

Here’s a board we used in the past for a stewart platform, which are a type of robot you can read about elsewhere on this site. It’s a good start for driving a robot dog. ELEC-0132 stewart platform board was designed for 11 PWM signals out and 6 analog values in. I’m betting that one of them can be used as an extra out signal to drive all 12 motors in the Spot Micro’s legs.

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Because I’ve been doing robots for so long, sometimes old projects come back to help me. I needed a board to run all twelve PWM, and this one might do the trick. #pcb #stewartplatform #oshpark #spotmicro #spot #robot #dog

A post shared by Marginally Clever Robots (@imakerobots) on Apr 10, 2020 at 4:03pm PDT

The boards are made by OSHPark and you can get them here:

https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/uGE0oIwR

But maybe wait until I test this theory. If I do this post will be updated with a part 2 right here:

pcb robot dog robot dog pcb spot micro

The missing Spot Micro PCB is here!

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