Greetings!
First, I would like to mention that I am a beginner in everything related to electronics.
So, you will forgive me if I ask questions with answers that might be obvious to some of you.
I am wondering: is it possible to add/connect Arduino/Adafruit shields to my Orion Baseboard?
If yes, how?
Appreciate the help.
– C
I think they can but you have to make the telephone like connector haha.
I’m new to Makeblock I just happen to buy a kit that contained electronics and so far I like plain arduino the best. As a matter of fact my orion baseboard is not working at this moment and working on it.
As I read in the board all components or at least most of them are connected in a serial way (SCL, SDA, Vin, GND) so if you have a serial board should work, I guess…
Anyhow due to the cost of the boards I would keep make block baseboards and they peripheral and the Arduinos apart.
If you want to use Arduino shields then you might as well just use an Arduino instead of the Orion. I have a bunch of connectors, cord, and crimpers. I’ve already made a few cables that allow the Orion to use sensor modules that have standard molex header pins. It would probably be just as easy to make a cable that allows you to attach Orion components to the Arduino baseboard.
Salut Chadi-
you should certainly be able to use Arduino shields on the Orion, with the proviso, as Fernando says, that you’d have to connect some rj25 telephone jacks to their pinouts. But that’s pretty easy, you’d just strip one end of the telephone jack wire, and connect to pinouts on your other shield, keeping the rj25 lack on the other side to connect to your orion.
I disagree that there’d be no point in doing this; it just means sparkfun.com becomes an endless mine of slightly less easy to use shields for your makeblock robots.
I am for example thinking about their geiger counter shield!
You can use the makeblock rj25 adapter module http://www.makeblock.cc/me-rj25-adapter-v2-1/ to connect non makeblock parts. You’d just have to wire a jst connector to that module.
The telephone wire method works well.
I agree with @jackbrown that this is great as it alows the use of other input/outputs use with the makeblock system.