Baby Orangutan B-168 Robot Controller
 
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The Baby Orangutan B-168 is a very compact but complete robot controller, packing a high-performance AVR microcontroller and two motor drive channels in the same 24-pin form factor as competing units that include just a microcontroller. You can connect your battery, sensors, and motors directly to this small module to make a miniature robot, or you can use the Baby Orangutan as an auxiliary controller in larger robots. Note: This version has been replaced by the Baby Orangutan B-328
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Documentation and other information
Pololu Baby Orangutan B User’s Guide
(Printable PDF: baby_orangutan_b.pdf)
User’s guide for the Pololu Baby Orangutan B-48, B-168, and B-328 robot controllers.
Pololu AVR C/C++ Library User’s Guide
(Printable PDF: pololu_avr_library.pdf)
Information about installing and using the C/C++ libraries provided for use with Pololu products.
Pololu AVR Library Command Reference
(Printable PDF: avr_library_commands.pdf)
A reference to commands provided in the Pololu C/C++ and Arduino libraries for the AVR.
Programming Orangutans and the 3pi Robot from the Arduino Environment
(Printable PDF: orangutan_arduino.pdf)
Guide to making the Arduino IDE compatible with the 3pi robot and the Orangutan SV-168, Orangutan LV-168, and Baby Orangutan B robot controllers, including Arduino libraries for interfacing with the all of their on-board hardware.
Application Note: Using the Motor Driver on the 3pi Robot and Orangutan Robot Controllers
(Printable PDF: motor_driver_application_note.pdf)
Detailed information about the 3pi Robot, Orangutan SV-328/168 and LV-168, and Baby Orangutan B motor drivers, including truth tables and sample code.
Application Note: MLX90614ESF SMBus Communication with Orangutan Robot Controllers
(Printable PDF: mlx90614esf_smbus_orangutan.pdf)
A guide for implementing the SMBus (I²C-compatible) protocol for the MLX90614ESF temperature sensor on the AVR-based Orangutan robot controller series. The guide includes sample code for taking temperature readings.
File downloads
- Pololu AVR Development Bundle for Windows (release 110624) (173MB exe)
- This bundle contains the software you need to get started programming AVRs in Windows using the Pololu USB AVR Programmer: the WinAVR tools, Atmel AVR Studio 4, the Pololu AVR C/C++ Library, the Pololu USB AVR Programmer drivers and software, and the Pololu Orangutan SVP drivers.
- Toshiba TB6612FNG motor driver datasheet (308k pdf)
- Sample AVR Studio project for the ATmega48 to blink an LED (9k zip)
- This is a sample AVR Studio project that will blink an LED on an Baby Orangutan B-48.
- Sample AVR Studio project for the ATmega168 to blink an LED (9k zip)
- This is a sample AVR Studio project that will blink an LED on an Orangutan with an ATmega168 microcontroller: Orangutan mega168, Orangutan LV-168, Orangutan SV-168, Baby Orangutan mega168, and Baby Orangutan B-168.
- Sample AVR Studio project for the ATmega328P to blink an LED (9k zip)
- This is a sample AVR Studio project that will blink an LED on a Baby Orangutan B-328, 3pi robot, or Orangutan SV-328.
- AVR Studio demo project #1 for the Orangutan SV-168 and LV-168 (14k zip)
- C code for the mega168: This project demonstrates the fundamentals of using I/O lines on a mega168. Each line of the source code is commented, and there is a short tutorial in comments at the start of main() on using AVR I/O and on C bit-logic. The program will alternately flash the two user LEDs until you ground the general-purpose I/O pin PD0 (the right-most of the eight user I/O lines at the top of the board). Grounding pin PD0 will cause the program to pulse the buzzer pin instead of the LED pins, causing the buzzer to play a note. While intended for use on the Orangutan SV-168 and LV-168, this program will run on the Baby Orangutan B-168 and can serve as a useful example on how to use the ATmega48/168 I/O lines. It will run on the Baby Orangutan B-328 with some minor modifications.
- LSM303DLH Orangutan example project (5k zip)
- This sample program shows how to use an LSM303DLH 3D compass and accelerometer carrier with an Orangutan robot controller to build a tilt-compensated digital compass. The AVR Studio project is set up for an ATmega328P microcontroller, but it will work on other Orangutans with simple changes to the project configuration. This code can be trivially modified to work with the very similar and newer LSM303DLM 3D compass and accelerometer carrier by swapping the magnetometer Y and Z registers.
Recommended links
- WinAVR
- A free, open-source suite of development tools for the AVR family of microcontrollers, including the GNU GCC compiler for C/C++.
- AVR Studio
- Atmel’s free AVR integrated development environment (IDE) that works with WinAVR’s free GCC C/C++ compiler.
- ATmega328P documentation
- Atmel’s product page for the ATmega328P.
- ATmega168 documentation
- Atmel’s product page for the ATmega168.
- ATmega48 documentation
- Atmel’s product page for the ATmega48.
- Pololu Orangutan Forum Section
- The Orangutan discussion section of the Pololu Robotics Forum.
- AVR Freaks
- AVR community with forums, projects, and AVR news.
- Orangutan-lib
- An open-source C library for the Orangutan family of robot controllers. Note: this library was not created by and is not maintained by Pololu; it contains only limited support for the Orangutan X2 and does not directly support the Orangutan SV-168, Orangutan LV-168, or Baby Orangutan B revision.
- Tutorial: AVR Programming on the Mac
- Customer Michael Shimniok has written a guide to programming AVRs (the Orangutan LV-168, specifically) using the Mac.
- Robot Zero: a fast line follower for beginners
- A guide to building a fast (> 2 m/s) line-following robot from scratch. By C.I.r.E., February 2011.
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