The Supertester

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Does your team have difficulty trouble-shooting their robot's electronics?

Does your software team need help simulating input from encoders or other sensors?

Does your team need a small and low cost multi-purpose test device?

Something specifically customized for FIRST electronics?

And something you can customize or modify for your own use?

Team 997 is proud to introduce what our team calls the Supertester. It is being prototyped right now and we are trying to judge demand so we can plan how we will build production models. We do not know yet if we will be selling finished tester or kits, or perhaps even both, so please provide us input.

All summer long our team has been developing a product that we think is very useful when working with FIRST robots. It is microcontroller based, has a 2X16 character backlit LCD display, and comes with several built in features. Here are a few things we have programmed into the Supertester right now.

1. PWM output that can drive a motor controller or servo.

2. Ability to read and display information about a PWM signal coming from another device.

3. Simulates the output from a quadrature encoder.

4. Reads input from a two channel encoder and displays speed and direction

5. Outputs a single channel square wave up to 5 kHz.

6. Inputs and outputs SPIKE control signals

7. Tests limit switches

8. Reads and displays analog signals from potentiometer, gyro, or other 5v analog sensor.

9. Scans an I2C bus and tells you the hex address of any devices on the bus

10. Has a built in option to read data from a ADXL345 accelerometer to test and experiment with it

11. And it is fully hackable. It uses the Atmega328P which can be modified from an Arduino Uno.

That is it for now. Remember this is not yet available in volume, but look for more information soon on our website,
http://chsrobotics.org/
We are also setting up a special email address for getting more information at
supertester997@gmail.com

And a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgV74...ature=youtu.be

Here is a low quality photo. We should have something better soon.