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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: Crunchy Theory on January 04, 2014, 12:47:49 PM

Title: Rex - an ARM Cortex-A8 development board for Robotics
Post by: Crunchy Theory on January 04, 2014, 12:47:49 PM

Howdy! I just launched a Kickstarter campaign for my robotics development board, Rex, and thought you guys might be interested. For robots, it was designed to be a better alternative than the Raspberry Pi and to complement microcontrollers (and basically any device with I2C) in a modular fashion, which is something I always personally wanted.

Here's the link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alphalem/rex-the-brain-for-robots (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alphalem/rex-the-brain-for-robots)

Feel free to ask questions!

Title: Re: Rex - an ARM Cortex-A8 development board for Robotics
Post by: jwatte on January 04, 2014, 03:17:03 PM

20A power handling? How thick copper are you plating? How wide are those traces?

Title: Re: Rex - an ARM Cortex-A8 development board for Robotics
Post by: Crunchy Theory on January 04, 2014, 03:37:31 PM

Standard thickness, but the traces are enormous. The hexapod robot in the video really is running off Rex, to give you an idea of real world usage.

Title: Re: Rex - an ARM Cortex-A8 development board for Robotics
Post by: georgeecollins on January 25, 2014, 11:22:56 AM

That looks really cool.  I signed up for a board.  Is there a place where I can find sample code using your new operating system?