1 Nano V3 board + Nano Shield Pots, Switches, Servo connectors + 10 P/N Cables

Description: 1 Nano V3 board with Nano Shield with Pots, Switches, Servo connectors and 10 power cables for dedicated servo powering (also Supports any Nano V3 Pin Compatible Board) - No soldering required, all female and male header pins already mounted- 1 Nano V3 with FT232RL is pre-mounted on the shield as part of this listing- 1 Female Socket for Arduino Nano V3 or Compatible Board- 8 Pass-through Servo Power Connections for up to 8 High Power Servos- 8 Potentiometers connected to the 8 Analog inputs- 4 Micro Switches connected to 4 Digital Pin for up to 16 modes of operation- 2 RC Radio Receiver with standard 3-Pins Inputs- 2 Power Pins for powering Nano V3- Designed for Small to Medium Robotic Applications- Pass-through Servo Power Pins with Signal Pins connected to 8 Digital I/O Pins- Micro Switches connected to 4 Digital Pins- RC Radio Receiver 3-Pins Inputs connected to 2 Digital Pins- Hardware Interrupt Supported for both RC Radio Receiver 3-Pins Inputs- Supports On-Board and Off-Boards Programming of Arduino Nano V3 (or compatible boards)- Ensure switches are in the correct position when programming Nano V3 while connected to the board or re-programming may not work until you do so.- Powered by 7V Min up to 12V Max (like a 2S Lipo battery for example)- Small Form-factor makes it easy to integrate to existing projects, robots or RC cars- Light Weight so great for Drone Applications and RC Planes- Supports High Power Servos of 4 to 12 Volts, up to 50 Watts per Servo (Total Max of 300 Watts for the entire board)- Nano V3 Board (or compatible) can be powered via Shield Power Pins or directly via mini USB port- USB Cable Not IncludedWho is that Shield for:- Robotic Students- Serious RC Hobbyists- Robot Designers- Large Scales RC Planes flyers- Oversized RC Cars drivers- Arduino Programmers- AVR Programmers- Anyone with a Project that Requires Pots and/or SwitchesShield Awards from California Applied Robotic Students Association:- Most Reliable Shield prize- Most Used Shield during CARSA Competition- Best Arduino Nano Compatible ShieldComments from CARSA Competition winners: "We really liked that Nano Shield because we were not limited in the power and size of the Servos we could incorporate to our robot, a critical point, since it is pretty much the only servo shield available that did not burn under the power consumption. Another reason we voted for that shield, is that it created an interface between the board we used as the brain of the Robot and the Nano board dedicated to the actuators. It made it very easy to switch between controlling the robot with a regular RC remote control and controlling the robot with the Autonomous Control board. It was a key advantage for several reasons, for one thing we were able to do a lot of testing iterations very quickly. We could test multiple scenarios manually with the help of a standard RC remote control to decide what the best approach in developing the robot AI was. The pots solved an issue we had with any of the continuously rotating servos we tried, which is that even two identical continuously rotating servos always require slightly different pulse length to be in neutral or stopped position. The robot uses caterpillars like actuators so it is important that both side are stopped when the Nano shield is receiving a neutral pulse from the RC Radio or from the Autonomous Control board. With the pots to make adjustments that was no longer an issue. That saved us time and money because it eliminated completely the need for rotary encoders for us. Oh yeah and Pots were also convenient to make some adjustments to the two other types of servos and the one brushless motor we had on our robot, all that while running the robot."The switches were a great help too, we were able to use some of them to multiplex the function of some of the pots. The remaining switches gave us the opportunity to create multiple modes of operation for similar inputs coming from the Autonomous Control board to the Nano Shield. The most amazing thing is that our initial idea was to put the AI and the Actuators code in the Autonomous Control board but because we decided to use that Nano Shield we had to decouple the AI code from the Actuators code and by doing that we ended up with a much cleaner much more flexible solution. Our Code is more manageable. Thanks to that decoupling we were also able to develop several AI boards to control the same robot. Basically we can easily switch between an Arduino, a Raspberry pi or Beagle-bone as the AI board depending on how much AI power we need. The judges really liked our design. Some of them told us afterward that they were really impressed that we had followed that path. The truth is that our solution made everything much easier and much more manageable. Adding an interface board between the AI board and the Actuators really simplified everything in the end.But going back to the beginning, the coolest thing and also the real reason that got us that elegant solution is that with that Nano shield we could use monster power for our actuators, so we ran with it and never looked back."

Price: 10.55 USD

Location: San Diego, California

End Time: 2024-03-01T00:35:05.000Z

Shipping Cost: N/A USD