New Speed Controller Announced

[ajlapp]

I forgot to mention: I went ahead and uploaded the Jaguar's IGES file on the Jaguar microsite at http://www.luminarymicro.com/jaguar.

Any chance you can supply a complete solid model of the housing? The iges file imports as a shell which can be troublesome to work with.

Is Luminary aware that it is common for teams to purchase many of these during a season? Teams that construct 2 complete robots may purchase 10-15 of these in a single season!

If these are purchased for non-FIRST applications will their full potential be available?

Thanks.

[utlinebacker]

Originally Posted by ajlapp

Any chance you can supply a complete solid model of the housing? The iges file imports as a shell which can be troublesome to work with.

Is Luminary aware that it is common for teams to purchase many of these during a season? Teams that construct 2 complete robots may purchase 10-15 of these in a single season!

If these are purchased for non-FIRST applications will their full potential be available?

Thanks.

Unfortunately, I cannot supply a complete solid model at this time.

As for non-FRC apps, the full "raw potential" of the Jaguar is available. The short version of the story: you need CAN to enable Jaguar's non-FRC2009 features and we purposely stunted the Jaguar's CAN API development until after FRC2009 (for the purpose of FRC2009). So, the full potential is available, but the method to unleash these features (CAN) is purposely not yet so easy to use that a marketer like me could do it.

(Did I just cut myself down?)

Regards,
Scott

[waialua359]

Can someone confirm that the jaguar sold by Digikey is in fact the ones we can order already in advance for this year's game? I couldnt find the post of the vendors, if I recall, that either offered them or had them at a discount.
Sorry, dont want to read 100+ posts to maybe find the info here.

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Can someone confirm that the jaguar sold by Digikey is in fact the ones we can order already in advance for this year's game? I couldnt find the post of the vendors, if I recall, that either offered them or had them at a discount.
Sorry, dont want to read 100+ posts to maybe find the info here.

Here you go. http://sales.digikey.com/dkes/FirstR...ompetition.asp

From post #102. It took me two minutes to find it.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by billbo911

Here you go. http://sales.digikey.com/dkes/FirstR...ompetition.asp

From post #102. It took me two minutes to find it.

thanks for saving me the trouble.

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by waialua359

thanks for saving me the trouble.

You are quite welcome
Mahalo

[Clinton Bolinger]

Does any one know if there is a way to monitor the state of the limit switches for debugging purposes? Maybe by adding a LED in series with the Limit switches or something?

-Oris-

[jskene]

This information is available on the data sheet available from Luminary:

http://www.luminarymicro.com/products/rdk-bdc.html

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Oris

Does any one know if there is a way to monitor the state of the limit switches for debugging purposes? Maybe by adding a LED in series with the Limit switches or something?

-Oris-

Your best bet is to get some double pole microswitches and wire one pole into the Jag, and the second pole into a digital sidecar or something else. When we have access to the CAN interface, the state will be monitored from there, but that's not happening this year.

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Your best bet is to get some double pole microswitches and wire one pole into the Jag, and the second pole into a digital sidecar or something else. When we have access to the CAN interface, the state will be monitored from there, but that's not happening this year.

The limit switch input for the Jag are normally closed. So, it would be possible to build a simple LED driver board that would turn on an LED if it saw the ground go away.
This, of course, is subject to the rules.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by billbo911

The limit switch input for the Jag are normally closed. So, it would be possible to build a simple LED driver board that would turn on an LED if it saw the ground go away.
This, of course, is subject to the rules.

It occurs to me that you could use the NO side of the micro switch to drive your LED to the ground of the Jaguar. You'd want to grab your source voltage from some safe 5V supply, possibly on the Jag itself. Though this only tells you the position of your limit switch, not necessarily what the Jag is reading.

Reading the actual pin on the Jag would be trickier, as you'd need to make very certain you're no accidentally pulling the input high or low with your circuit.

[cicib99]

does anyone know exactly how big this is?

or has anyone found or made and inventor version yet?

[lynca]

Luminary Micro has CAD files posted
http://www.luminarymicro.com/products/mdl_bdc.html