Designing a Wixel Breakout Board

I’ve had great success with my master/slave setup and now I want to do a short run of breakout boards for the wixel. I’ve designed a small board that will allow access to the servo outputs, P0_2, P0_3, P0_4, P1_0, P1_1 and P1_2. That is enough for my current application but was wondering about some of the sections I have not worked with, the three remaining analog inputs, P0_0, P0_1 and P0_5. I also have room for two more, no need to waste real estate. I was thinking P1_6 and P1_7 so I can get to the TX/RX for a possible serial connection later or just use them for generic I/O. Does this sound reasonable? I’m using the standard servo and USB libraries- are there any conflicts with these ports using those?

Also, one other question. I’d like to mount the wixel ‘standing up’ so the servo connect pins are on the bottom and the wixel stands up. Sort of an ‘L’ shape where the wixel is up and down and the breakout board is on the bottom. I know I’ve seen ‘right angle’ headers that would do this, but I can’t seem to find any. Anyone know where I can get some?

Hello.

I am glad you are having success with the Wixel! Please share more details about your project when it is ready.

Your plan sounds reasonable. It is possible for a Wixel to use USB, servos, UARTs, and the ADC simultaneously without conflicts.

We sell male right-angle headers:

pololu.com/catalog/product/967

–David

Thanks. I hope to post up some experiments soon.

As far as angled headers I mean something like this:


Can I replace the green/yellow wires with something I can solder quickly?

I do not know of any good solutions for you. --David

Finally got my PCBs yesterday, they look great! Hopefully they work as well as they look. Hope to get to some testing done this weekend…

http://martinsant.net/?p=901