VTMotor - alternative firmware for the board Seeedstudio Grove - I2C Motor Driver
Updated 13.02.2013
Русская версия статьи (Russian version of the article)
Board flashing
I have an old version of the board: v1.1. MOSI and SCK pin labels are confused at the board. If you have troubles flashing it, consider changing MOSI with SCK pins.
Add delay() is not good solution
I connect this board to my robot. It runs under Linux. I use i2c-gpio driver. I use i2cdetect for i2c bus testing.
The i2c bus hangs just after first addressing of the board. New firmware doesn't solve the problem.
At wiki, it is written "Different Arduino IDE may have difference. I use arduino-0019 and it works fine, but when i use arduino - 0022, I need to add some delay() at the end of Wire.endTransmission()."
I don't think it is a good idea to add delays to the i2cdetect or even in the i2c-gpio driver.
Therefore I have decided to write my own firmware.
Alternative firmware VTMotor
The firmware uses AVR Libc (for Linux). There are Windows version WinAVR, but I don't know wheather it is fully compatible.
VTMotor can control two motors. Pwm frequency is fixed (maybe someone will implement support of frequency change). Frequency = 200 Hz.
Cooperation
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Commands
The device address is 0x28.
| Command | Command code (1 byte) | Argument 1 (1 byte) | Argument 1 (1 byte) | Comments |
| DRV_WHO_AM_I | 0x10 | - | - | Check existance of the device. It must return 0x47 |
| DRV_DRV_ENABLE | 0x11 | - | - | Turn on |
| DRV_DRV_DISABLE | 0x12 | - | - | Turn off (Default) |
| DRV_SET_SPEED | 0x13 | Left drive speed | Right drive speed | Value from 0 to 100. (Default is 0) |
| DRV_SET_DIRECTION | 0x14 | Left drive direction | Right drive direction | 0x0 - forward (default); 0x1 - back |
Download VTMotor firmware
Changelog:
* v1.1 Added firmware for board v1.2, which has different schematics.
Latest stable: firmware + source:
VTMotor v1.1 13.02.1012
Unstable current version:
https://github.com/vitperov/VTMotor
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