EyeBot Mobile Robot controller

    EyeBot is a controller for mobile robots with wheels, walking robots or flying robots. It consists of a powerful 32-Bit microcontroller board with a graphics display and a digital grayscale or color camera.  The camera is directly connected to the robot board (no frame grabber). This allows you write powerful robot control programs without a big and heavy computer system and without having to sacrifice vision - the most important sensor.  The EyeBot controller is also powerful enough to handle Artificial Intelligence, upload Neural Networks created with Neural Lab v2.5.  (check out the example in the Handy Files section).

Features

Ideal basis for programming of real time image processing
Integrated digital camera (grayscale or color)
Large graphics display (LCD)
Can be extended with own mechanics and sensors to full mobile robot
Programmed from IBM-PC or Unix workstation,
programs are downloaded via serial line (RS-232) into RAM or Flash-ROM
Programming in C or assembly language
Third generation hardware (see previous EyeBot-2)

Main Features:
- 25MHz 32bit Controller (Motorola 68332)
- 1MB RAM
- 512KB ROM (for system + user programs!)
- 1 parallel port
- 2 serial ports
- 8 digital inputs
- 8 digital outputs
- 8 analog inputs
- single compact PCB, almost same size as old EyeBot
- interface for color and grayscale camera
- large graphics LCD (128x64 pixels)
- 4 input buttons
- reset button, power switch
- speaker for audio output
- microphone for audio input
- battery level indication

Connectors for Actuators and Sensors:
- Digital camera
- 2 DC motors with encoders
- 12 servos
- 6 infrared-sensors (or 6 free digital inputs)
- 2 bumpers (or 2 free digital inputs)
- 6 free analog inputs

EyeCam - Digital Camera for EyeBot

EyeCam is a full color (24 bit), low resolution (80 x 60 pixels) digital camera to be used with the EyeBot controller. This resolution is sufficient for most robotics tasks and allows fast image processing.

The camera uses the latest CMOS technology which has a much better brightness range than conventional CCD technology.  EyeCam can be used directly on an EyeBot controller or with an adapter cable on a PC, using the Improv software.  Camera size (PCB size) is 3.0cm x 3.4cm, including 4 mounting holes.

The Eyenet Eyebot and Eyenet PC modules can be used for RF communication between the Eyebot controllers and PC or between Eyebots.

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