Lantronix has announced its Open-Q 5165RB, a tiny (50mm x 29mm) production-ready compute module based on Qualcomm’s QRB5165 SoC. The QRB5165 is a robotics-oriented variant of the Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865. Along with the module, Lantronix has rolled out the Open-Q 865 SOM development kit as a companion to the Open-Q 5165RB SOM.
Announced by distributor Electromate, Advanced Motion Controls has added to its FlexPro family with the first of their “Mini”-sized servo drives. With a slight size increase, these drives can output over double the current and operate on higher voltage than existing micro-sized FlexPro drives.
eCapture has introduced what it claims is the smallest form factor stereoscopic 3D depth sensing camera. The new LifeSense G53 measures 50mm x 14.9mm x 20 mm and is designed for depth capture and object tracking for industrial, robotics and other applications driven by AI. eCapture plans to introduce a full range of depth map cameras to address the growing need for stereo imaging equipment over the next quarter.
Raul continues his article series on the Robot Operating System (ROS). Here in Part 2, he shares how he built a Raspberry Pi-based differential drive robotic car as a low-cost platform to let you experiment with ROS middleware.
RPi 4 Based Mobile Bot Features Optional 6-DoF Arm
In May, Elephant Robotics launched a $699, six-axis manipulation bot called the MyCobot Pi, which is built around a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. Now the company has given its robot arm some wheels in the form of a MyAGV autonomous ground vehicle (AGV), which houses its own RPi 4B. When the $699 mobile bot is equipped with an MyCobot arm, the system is billed as the smallest, 6-DoF compound robot.
Sinovoip has unveiled a “Banana Pi BPI-R2 Pro” router board that runs OpenWrt on a quad -A55 RK3568 and offers 4x GbE with WAN, 2x USB 3.0, SATA, HDMI, MIPI DSI/CSI, 40-pin, mini-PCIe and M.2 E-key.
