All the source codes of the Spider Robot is available with the kit. You can modify the code to improve or to change the Spider’s functions according to specific applications. The source codes include Android project, Linux application project, and a Quartus project.
Note that there is a 2×20 GPIO expansion header available on the DE0-Nano-SoC board. You are free to use it to expand functions, such as camera, ultrasonic, or anything else
Specifications:
DE0-Nano-SoC Altera SoC FPGA board for the spider control
Servo Motor Card for servo motor driving
Metal gear servo motor – MG996R
Aluminum body
Remote control through Bluetooth
Power from 12V DC or Battery
Open Source
DE0-Nano-SoC Board Features
Altera SoC – Altera Cyclone® V SE 5CSEMA4U23C6N
• FPGA
40K programmable logic elements
Serial configuration device – EPCS128
USB-Blaster II onboard for programming; JTAG Mode
2 push-buttons
4 slide switches
8 green user LEDs
Three 50MHz clock sources from the clock generator
Two 40-pin expansion header
One Arduino expansion header (Uno R3 compatibility), can connection with Arduino shields.
One 10-pin Analog input expansion header. (shared with Arduino Analog input)
A/D converter, 4-pin SPI interface with FPGA
• HPS (Hard Processor System)
925MHz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor
1GB DDR3 SDRAM (32-bit data bus)
1 Gigabit Ethernet PHY with RJ45 connector
USB OTG Port, USB Micro-AB connector
Micro SD card socket
Accelerometer (I2C interface + interrupt)
UART to USB, USB Mini-B connector
Warm reset button and cold reset button
One user button and one user LED
LTC 2×7 expansion header
DE0-Nano-SoC
Servo Motor Card Features:
2X20 3.3V GPIO Interface
Drive 24 servo motors at most
Fuse protection for each servo driving port
Build-In Altera CPLD and Power Monitor Chip:
Battery voltage monitor
Total current monitor
Auto shutdown when battery is low or total current is too high.
Source code is available for users to modify according to their application.