{"id":6816,"date":"2013-10-31T13:24:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T13:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=6816"},"modified":"2013-10-31T13:24:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T13:24:13","slug":"new-product-found-4tronix-pirocon-robot-controller-for-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6816","title":{"rendered":"New product found: @4tronix_uk PiRoCon robot controller for #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/myworld.ebay.co.uk\/4tronix_uk?_trksid=p2047675.l2559\">eBay vendor 4tronix<\/a>, (@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/4tronix_uk\">4tronix_uk<\/a>) who have proved themselves to be very good at customer service (just ask <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gadgetoid\">@gadgetoid<\/a>\u00a0or myself!) and super-fast on delivery have just released the PiRoCon &#8211; a GPIO robot controller plugin board.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.co.uk\/itm\/161139925808?clk_rvr_id=539019620142&amp;afsrc=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"4tronix PiRoCon Robot Controller for Raspberry Pi Motors Servos Scratch GPIO Kit | eBay\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/KGrHqFk8FJlR29NWMBSchO9dmS60_121.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">5V 1.5A regulator to power the robot and the Pi from 6V to 9V batteries<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">LED indication of 5V and 3.3V power status<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">Dual H-Bridge driver to drive 2 DC motors (or 2 sets of 2 if using paired motors on each side of the robot)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">8 bi-directional level-shifted GPIO signals<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">All GPIO signals have 3-pin connectors (power, ground and signal)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">4-pin male header to directly plug in an Ultrasonic distance sensor. Only uses a single pin on the Raspberry Pi GPIO<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">If you don&#8217;t like the default pin allocations for anything, simply remove the relevant jumper and use jumper wires to connect to your preferred signal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">2 of the GPIO connectors can be used as servo drivers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">Expansion board support. This is provided via the I2C bus and the expansion boards can be stackable &#8211; add as many as you like!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">Currently available is a 16-channel servo\/PWM driver board<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">Coming soon: analogue I\/O expansion, 16\/32 digital I\/O expansion, LED indicator board, LCD Display <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">Includes mounting pillar and screws so it can be securely mounted to your Raspberry Pi (rev B only) &#8211; no more expansion boards flapping in the breeze!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">All of this is directly supported in Scratch GPIO 3.0 onwards &#8211; many thanks to Simon Walters (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cymplecy\">@cymplecy<\/a>) for some excellent work<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.co.uk\/itm\/161139925808?clk_rvr_id=539019620142&amp;afsrc=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"4tronix PiRoCon Robot Controller for Raspberry Pi Motors Servos Scratch GPIO Kit | eBay\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/prc02c1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The board will set you back just under \u00a320 which is excellent value for a robot board. I can&#8217;t afford one myself right now but I would buy one if I could as the feature set alone makes it worth the money, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>It does require some soldering (as you can see from the contents picture above) but nothing you should worry about too much as all the surface-mounting is done for you already.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.co.uk\/itm\/161139925808?clk_rvr_id=539019620142&amp;afsrc=1\">Read more and order from eBay here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>I have no affiliation with 4tronix aside from being a satisfied customer!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eBay vendor 4tronix, (@4tronix_uk) who have proved themselves to be very good at customer service (just ask @gadgetoid\u00a0or myself!) and super-fast on delivery have just released the PiRoCon &#8211; a GPIO robot controller plugin board. It has the following features:&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6816\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gpio-boards","category-robotics","category-rpi-shopping"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New product found: @4tronix_uk PiRoCon robot controller for #RaspberryPi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6816\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New product found: @4tronix_uk PiRoCon robot controller for #RaspberryPi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"eBay vendor 4tronix, (@4tronix_uk) who have proved themselves to be very good at customer service (just ask @gadgetoid\u00a0or myself!) and super-fast on delivery have just released the PiRoCon &#8211; a GPIO robot controller plugin board. 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