Faster than designing your own application...
More powerful than most motor controllers...
Able to control many different motorsat the same time...
Look up in this website... It’s a controller... it’s your controller, it’s...
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Most robots rely on a brain chip like a processor, microcontroller or Single Board Computer. By interfacing this engine to different peripherals like motors, sensors and actuators, the robot comes to life. But is it an intelligent robot? Most likely not! And that is because while the processing unit is worried about reading its sensor set, running its motors and applying some algorithms, most of it’s valuable resources are lost to the many tasks at hand.
This is where Super Stepper comes to the rescue! Instead of having a single processing unit, it has been repeatedly shown that multiprocessing is the key to more efficient systems. With Super Stepper your robot brain now only has to worry about sending fast serial commands which take very little time and I/O to a series of modules responsible of coordinating complicated tasks like stepper motor control waveform generation, RC Servo PWM signals, digital sensor level sample and de-bounce, analog capture and more.
The Super Stepper architecture allows the user to connect up to 32 devices in a single serial chain. That’s a lot of control!
In this website you can learn about the protocol and how to interface the modules using different platforms like VB6 in Windows, the Basic Stamp and others.
NOTE: The Super Stepper architecture was my implementation of a robotics control system with the intention of controlling my R2D2 replica as well as many other robots I was working at the time (i.e. robotic cameras and battlebots). At this moment, this web site is available to the public as an informational means. I can not work too much on this project, although I would truly like it very much.
I decided to release the Super Stepper architecture as Open Source. Feel free to tamper with it as you like, but return to others your modifications so that we can all benefit.
Avayan
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Last Updated on Jan 10, 2008
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