Thank you Francesco, this is very helpful. Jenny
> Dear Jenny, > > If you look to the signal page (list of names) of the signals you can see > that y0 to y7 go to the camera. This is the parallel camera bus and cannot > be used for generic extensions. It can be used to connect other cameras. > To connect an extension the most elegant way is the i2c bus, but you can > also use some direct pins of the processor by removing the existing > functionality. This can be done on the signals that go and come back from > the extension (top connector on the extension connector pages). Using the > i2c bus you do not remove functionalities, but you need a device on the > extension supporting the bus. > There is no doc about how to make an extension.... > I hope this helps. > > Francesco > > On 29 juin 2010, at 15:13, Jenny Owen wrote: > >> Hi, >> I'm looking into making an extension board for the epuck and I was >> wondering about the data that's transferred through the connectors. Some >> of the connector pins are labelled y0 to y7 which I can't find any >> information about. >> What data is transferred on these pins? Can I use them with my extension >> board? How is data sent and received along these connections? It looks >> like the omnidirectional vision turret uses these pins but the other >> extension boards use the i2c bus. >> >> More generally, is there any information about making an e-puck >> extension apart from the schematics for the existing ones? I have looked >> but not found anything. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jenny >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> E-puck-user mailing list >> E-puck-user@gna.org >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/e-puck-user > > ------------------------------ > Dr. Francesco Mondada > Senior researcher, MER > > Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) > Laboratoire de Systèmes Robotiques (LSRO) > > Postal address: > Francesco Mondada > EPFL - STI - IMT - LSRO > bureau MEB330, Station 9 > CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland > > tel: +41 21 693 73 57 > fax: +41 21 693 78 07 > http://lsro.epfl.ch > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ E-puck-user mailing list E-puck-user@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/e-puck-user
