Open rwb27 opened 7 years ago
I think the two unused Darlington pairs are broken out now - though I don't know if that version has been uploaded (?)
I'm going to make a number of more specific issues for the next revision of the board.
While there are lots of nice suggestions for the next version, I think these are the most useful changes in the short term, and shouldn't be too much work...
As few more suggestions.... for the future.
For LEDs you could use neopixels or similar.
On the nano analogue pins 1-6 can be used as digital if required ;)
"A0-A5 can be used as: analog input/digital input/digital output. A6 and A7 are analog inputs only." (Via https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=502105.0
Thanks - that is useful. I've shied away from the neopixels for the moment, largely because my experience with other multi-colour LEDs is that the colours come from different locations on the die - while that's not an issue in lighting/display applications, it can be a real pain in microscopy.
That said, we are looking at more sophisticated condenser designs that might include diffusers, at which point neopixels might be a very good option :)
Its good to know about that disadvantage with multi led dies + microscopy.
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Thanks - that is useful. I've shied away from the neopixels for the moment, largely because my experience with other multi-colour LEDs is that the colours come from different locations on the die - while that's not an issue in lighting/display applications, it can be a real pain in microscopy.
That said, we are looking at more sophisticated condenser designs that might include diffusers, at which point neopixels might be a very good option :)
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thanks for the comments, i am finalizing version 0.2 of sangaboard (openflexure_nano_motor_controller). This time i have used eagle.
I’ve been thinking a bit more about this, and we might struggle for pins after all – Currently we have 14 channels of Darlington pair drivers (of which 12 are used). Extra things we might like are:
The Nano has 14 digital pins of which 2 are the serial interface and 12 control the motors. That leaves us 8 analogue pins to play with, which would be just enough to do the 3 things above, either using a digipot + constant current circuit for the LEDs or just the darlington pairs.