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A first look at the board

A project log for Pi-Duino-Teensy test with RC servos

I was asked to test the Pi-Duino-Teensy board by a PJRC forum member. I'll use it to control RC servos.

christophChristoph 10/31/2014 at 13:130 Comments

Well the board was delayed a bit in customs, and then by me because I had more important things to do, unfortunately.

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There are a few familiar headers I'd like to start with:

Additionally, the board comes with

There's also a pogo pin that is supposed to hit the Teensy's reset signal at a test point that is located on the bottom side of the Teensy. I don't really believe that as I've already touched it and it looks a bit slanted.

Also, no silk screen hint about which way the teensy goes in, I had to grab the schematic to find out. And I measured the supply pin voltages to be sure.

Bottom:

How nice! Foam strips to protect the display and camera connectors! Not much more to say about the bottom side (for now).

Stacked with the Pi:

The board overlaps the LAN and video jacks. That's not a problem right away, but let's take a closer look:

Yup, the pin touches the jack. I don't know what the "bead"-thingy is, but this will surely benefit from a piece of tape. The same for the video jack:

with tape already applied. After that was done I powered the combo up and there was no smoke:

I'll plug in a Teensy next time and try to talk to it via serial (PC -> Pi -> Teensy (echo sketch) -> Pi -> PC).

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