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RCM-Hardware-Nibble

v1.8

UNDER DEVELOPMENT

Half a BYTE

  • 1.08 by 1.12 inches, 27.432 by 28.448 millimeters
  • 4 motors
  • 4 servos
  • 2 additional GPIO pins
  • built-in IMU
  • battery monitoring
  • I2C connector on QT PY
  • runs on 3-11 volts

program with RCMv2

Tested with the following types of ESP32 QT Py:

Type of Qt Py PlatformIO name link to Adafruit
S3 with 2MB PSRAM adafruit_qtpy_esp32s3_n4r2 https://www.adafruit.com/product/5700
S3 with 8Mb Flash adafruit_qtpy_esp32s3_nopsram https://www.adafruit.com/product/5426
S2 adafruit_qtpy_esp32s2 https://www.adafruit.com/product/5325

Look here for how to program it: https://github.com/RCMgames/RCMv2

Look here for more information and examples of robots: https://github.com/rcmgames

Want slightly larger and 8 motors and 8 servos? Look at the BYTE

Options for purchasing

  • PCBWay link (coming soon, after testing is complete) (PCBWay will give me a commission without increasing the price for you). (approximately $110 for 2 boards and manufacturing took a month).
  • send the gerbers, bill of materials, and ComponentPlacement files (in /PCBproduction-RCM-Nibble) to a PCB manufacturer of your choice (details you may be asked for: min hole 0.25mm, min track/spacing 5/5mil, thickness 1.0mm, 1 oz Cu outer 1.5 oz Cu inner, tell them to not solder the icm20948's exposed pad)

screenshot of 3D model

Acknowledgements

  • I would like to thank PCBWay for sponsoring prototyping runs of this project. PCBWay produces very nice boards, supports open source hardware, and gave me great support as I worked on this project. Special thanks to Liam!