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>$50 for a hub plus $15 per motor or sensor For the kind of thing they're doing (hub connected to peripherals over a UART connection or similar bus) this is ac
by swiley 6y ago
>$50 for a hub plus $15 per motor or sensor
For the kind of thing they're doing (hub connected to peripherals over a UART connection or similar bus) this is actually a pretty hard price to beat building everything from scratch. (you can, but you'll need to be pretty optimal and probably need a 3d printer and ICSP for whatever micro controller you want to use for each peripheral.) Plus all the time you take re-implementing stuff is time you don't spend on your project.
It's a bummer it looks like the largest hub only has 6 I/O ports, it wouldn't be crazy to design something compatible with the peripherals that had more.
- crooked-v 6y agoI know you can sorta daisy-chain the Robot Inventor hubs with careful use of the light sensors (you can light up the LED in multiple colors, so you can use light sensors facing each other as a communication mode), though you'll have to program the encoding yourself. No idea if or how much the same kind of possible with the Powered UP hubs.