Zumo Shield for Arduino

			Pololu item #: 2504 198 in stock Price break Unit price (US$) 1 24.95 10 22.46 Quantity: backorders allowed

This shield makes it easy to build an Arduino-controlled Zumo robot. The shield mounts onto an assembled Zumo chassis, connecting directly to the chassis’s battery terminals and motors, and the Arduino plugs into the shield, face down. The shield includes dual motor drivers, a buzzer for playing simple sounds and music, a user pushbutton, and a 3-axis accelerometer and compass. It boosts the battery voltage to power the Arduino, and it breaks out the Arduino I/O lines, reset button, and user LED for convenient access and to accommodate additional sensors for things like obstacle and edge detection.

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Documentation and other information

Pololu Zumo Shield for Arduino User’s Guide (Printable PDF: zumo_shield_for_arduino.pdf)

User’s manual for the Pololu Zumo Shield for Arduino.

File downloads

Zumo Shield schematic diagrams (121k pdf)

Zumo Shield front expansion pinout (552k pdf)

Texas Instruments DRV8835 motor driver datasheet (208k pdf)

LSM303DLHC datasheet (629k pdf)

Datasheet for the ST LSM303DLHC 3D accelerometer and 3D magnetometer module.

Recommended links

Zumo Shield Libraries

This collection of libraries and examples for the Arduino makes it easy to program an Arduino-controlled robot built with Pololu’s Zumo Shield or Zumo robot kit (also available fully assembled).

LSM303 Arduino library

This is a library for the Arduino that interfaces with our LSM303DLM and LSM303DLHC 3D compass and accelerometer carriers as well as the compass and accelerometer ICs on the MinIMU-9 and MinIMU-9 v2 (it also works with the LSM303DLH on older versions of those boards). It makes it simple to configure the device and read the raw accelerometer and magnetometer data, and it has a function for computing the tilt-compensated heading for those looking to use the LSM303 as a tilt-compensated compass.