A-Star 32U4 Robot Controller LV with Raspberry Pi Bridge (SMT Components Only)

Documentation and other information

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  Pololu A-Star 32U4 Robot Controller User’s Guide (Printable PDF)

  User’s manual for the Pololu A-Star 32U4 Robot Controller with Raspberry Pi Bridge.

File downloads

• Pololu A-Star 32U4 drivers for Windows (version 1.3.0.0) (7k zip)

  This download contains the Windows drivers for the A-Star 32U4 and the rest of our 32U4 family of boards.

• Pinout and power distribution diagrams of the A-Star 32U4 Robot Controller with Raspberry Pi Bridge (8MB pdf)

  Printable pinout and power distribution diagrams of the A-Star 32U4 Robot Controller with Raspberry Pi Bridge.

• Schematic diagram of the A-Star 32U4 Robot Controller LV with Raspberry Pi Bridge (382k pdf)

  Printable schematic for the A-Star 32U4 Robot Controller LV with Raspberry Pi Bridge.

• Dimension diagram of the A-Star 32U4 Robot Controller LV with Raspberry Pi Bridge (2MB pdf)

• 3D model of the A-Star 32U4 Robot Controller LV with Raspberry Pi Bridge (23MB step)

• Drill guide for the A-Star 32U4 Robot Controller LV with Raspberry Pi Bridge (188k dxf)

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

Recommended links

• A-Star 32U4 Arduino library

  The AStar32U4 library for the Arduino IDE helps interface with the on-board hardware on the A-Star 32U4 controllers.

• AStar32U4 library documentation

• A-Star repository on GitHub

  This repository contains Arduino add-on files, Windows drivers, and bootloaders for the A-Star 328PB, A-Star 32U4, and the rest of our 32U4 family of boards.

• Raspberry Pi slave library for Arduino

  This is an Arduino library that helps establish I²C communication between an A-Star 32U4 Robot Controller and a Raspberry Pi, with the Arduino acting as the I²C slave. Example Arduino code and Python code for the Raspberry Pi are included.

• Building a Raspberry Pi robot with the A-Star 32U4 Robot Controller

  This blog post shows how to build an expandable robot platform based on a Raspberry Pi and an A-Star 32U4 Robot Controller using our Raspberry Pi slave library for Arduino.

• Arduino Software

  Arduino integrated development environment (IDE) software

• ATmega32U4 documentation

  Microchip’s product page for the ATmega32U4 AVR microcontroller, with links to its datasheet, application notes, and other resources.

• Texas Instruments DRV8837/DRV8838 motor driver datasheet

• AVR Libc Home Page

  The web site for AVR Libc, which is the standard library of functions that you can use with C and C++ on the AVR.

• Pololu A-Star and Orangutan Forum Section

  The A-Star and Orangutan discussion section of the Pololu Robotics Forum.

• AVR Freaks

  AVR community with forums, projects, and AVR news.

• AVRDUDE

  AVRDUDE is a cross-platform command-line utility for programming the flash memory on AVR microcontrollers.

• LUFA – the Lightweight USB Framework for AVRs

  LUFA is an embedded software library written in C that can be used to create USB applications on USB-capable AVRs. It comes with a large library of example USB applications and bootloaders.

• Microchip Studio for AVR and SAM Devices

  A free integrated development environment (IDE) for AVRs. Formerly known as Atmel Studio.

• WinAVR

  A free, open-source suite of development tools for the AVR family of microcontrollers, including the GNU GCC compiler for C/C++.