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Baby Orangutan robot controller mega168

The Baby Orangutan is Pololu’s smallest robot controller: it packs an AVR microcontroller and two motor drivers into a tiny 24-pin DIP package, making it perfect for everything from micro sumos to auxiliary control on larger robots. This version includes Atmel’s mega168 microcontroller with 16 KB of program memory and 1 KB of RAM.

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File downloads

Baby Orangutan quick start-sheet and schematic (241k pdf)
LB1836M motor driver datasheet (94k pdf)
Sample AVR Studio project to blink an LED (14k zip): This is a sample AVR Studio project that will blink an LED on an Orangutan, Orangutan LV-168, and Baby Orangutan.

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.
ATmega168 documentation: Atmel’s product page for the ATmega168.
Pololu Robotics Forum: Pololu Robotics and Electronics forum—get technical support, share your project, or just drop in to say hi.
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 LV-168 or the Baby Orangutan B-x8 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.