The Huskie Board, designed by Huskie Robotics, FRC Team 3061, is an FRC qualified expansion board for the NI roboRIO robotics controller. In addition to breaking out all available signals on the MXP expansion port, this board uses a Parallax Propeller chip (8 symmetrical logical cores with shared memory and peripheral access) to enable tasks such as advanced data logging, on-field driver control and status, and NeoPixel control. Additional GPIO and analog inputs are added with open source code to allow further customization.
The Huskie Robotics web site has more information, including specifications, LabVIEW SDK, video tutorials, and link to the GitHub repository for firmware.
Something to help get through your Friday. We uploaded a video showing manufacturing of the Huskie Board on our Manncorp pick-and-place. Hope you enjoy!
Ok, this is really cool. What a great experience this must be for your team members. To design something practical for a large community and see it through to manufacturing and distribution… well done. If we find a need I’m definitely buying this for 2781.
We’ve just published our next video tutorial. This video shows how to connect NeoPixel LEDs to the Huskie Board and control them through the Huskie Board LabVIEW API.
Previous video tutorials and other resources are available on our web page.
We just published another video tutorial. This video shows how to control the intensity of LEDs using a potentiometer connected to an analog input channel on the Huskie Board and the Huskie Board LabVIEW API.
Previous video tutorials and other resources are available on our web page.