Zumo Shield for Arduino, v1.3

Documentation and other information

• 

  Pololu Zumo Shield for Arduino User’s Guide (Printable PDF)

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

File downloads

• Schematic diagram of the Zumo Shield for Arduino, v1.3 (183k pdf)

• Zumo Shield front expansion pinout (552k pdf)

• Dimension diagram of the Zumo Shield for Arduino, v1.3 (657k pdf)

• 3D model of the Zumo Shield for Arduino, v1.3 (17MB step)

• Drill guide for the Zumo Shield for Arduino, v1.3 (219k dxf)

  This DXF drawing shows the locations of all of the board’s holes.

• Guide utilisateur du Robot Zumo Pololu (2MB pdf)

  Un guide complet pour assembler, utiliser et exploiter rapidement votre Robot Zumo (version 0.1). Note: This French translation of our Zumo Robot for Arduino user’s guide was made by our distributor MCHobby.

Recommended links

• Zumo Shield Arduino library

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

• Simulink Library for Zumo Robot

  This library can be used to program an Arduino-controlled Zumo through MATLAB and Simulink. It provides driver blocks for all the sensors present on the Zumo Robot as well as example models showing their usage.

• How to program a Zumo robot with Simulink

  This tutorial on the Adafruit Learning System guides you through the process of programming a Zumo robot with Simulink.

• MicroPython library for the Zumo Robot with pyboard or Raspberry Pi Pico

  This MicroPython library from Pololu distributor MC Hobby allows a MicroPython pyboard or Raspberry Pi Pico to control a Zumo Robot for Arduino. MC Hobby has adapter boards that let you easily connect either controller to the Zumo Shield. Documentation is available in both French and English.

• Pixy Pet Robot tutorial: adding color vision to the Zumo Robot for Arduino with a Pixy CMUCam-5

  This tutorial from Adafruit shows how to pair a Pixy CMUCam-5 vision system with the Zumo Robot for Arduino to enable it to chase objects or follow you around.

• Zumo robot tuning tips

  This article was written by Professor Erich Styger for his class on embedded systems programming at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. It describes various ways to tweak the performance of a Zumo to be more competitive in a Mini Sumo competition. Note that his Zumos use a custom PCB rather than our Zumo shield for Arduino; our shield has a lot of capacitance in parallel with the batteries that generally prevents the “battery inertia” problem Erich describes.

• Freedom Zumo Robot

  This robot is uses our Zumo robot kit, 75:1 micro metal gearmotors, and a Zumo reflectance sensor array. Instead of an Arduino it uses a Freescale FRDM-KL25Z as the microcontroller board, and sample code is available for line following and maze solving. By Erich, March 2013.

• Texas Instruments DRV8835 motor driver datasheet