OrangeHat - Raspberry Pi Robot Hat

[05032-Mendicant-Bias]

Hello EEVblog

I have been working quite a while on a Raspberry Pi hat for robotics as an hobby, I discovered this blog while searching for information and I thought I'd share here the progress.

After trying lots of boards, I decided to focus on the Raspberry Pi for the compute because of power consumption and software available, I'm developing an hat to integrate all the electronics needed for a robot on a single board. Specs:

• XT60 Power connector
• 5V3A regulator channel for the Rasperry Pi
• Servomotors with a dedicated 5V3A regulator channel
• ATMega 4809 microcontroller
• Three channel voltage and current monitor
• Screen
• Communication Bus (right now RS485, but I'm evaluating CAN)

I release all relevant code and gerber open source, here the github repository:
github.com/OrsoEric/OrangeHat

OrangeHat assembled and powered as of 2022-01


OrangeHat installed on a simple bot as 2022-01


Youtube video of a simple OrangeHat powered bot moving

[Leslie]

Impressed project! looking forward updates! how about to use a small oled display instead of the big lcd?

[rooppoorali]

Along with Maze solver, what are the common robots that we can make with this hat?