ERO 3.6 Upgrades


The ERO 3.6 upgrades were completed in February, 2014.

  • New arm (V2): CrustCrawler AX-12A Smart Arm
  • New speech interface:
  • New vision solution:
    • BeagleBone (white, initially)
      • 32-bit Raspberry pi-like Arm core SoC
      • Upgraded to BeagleBone Black 8 months later, which adds HDMI out
    • Webcam: Logitech C250
    • OpenCV
  • New IMU (Gyro / Accelerometer / Compass): MiniIMU-9
  • New custom PCB's:
    • S12X I/F Rev 3.6 board
    • PS_3.6 power-supply board
  • New S12X build tools - ported to Freescale (now NXP) CodeWarrior®


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AX-12A Smart Arm

New Speech Interface

EasyVR Speech Recognition
TextSpeak TTS

New OpenCV-Based Image Processing Sub-System

BeagleBone (white)
BeagleBone Black
BeageBone Black & cape
Webcam

New Custom PCB's

Main Processor - S12X I/F v3.6

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partially populated
fully populated

Power Supply - v3.6

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populated

Both new PCB's

2nd Floor Full

(Electronics Layer)




V3.7 upgrades return to ERO 3 page