This week was dedicated to researching the chosen micro-controller and setting up the hardware for the Qualcomm Dragonboard 410c. This board has on-board GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi capabilities along with 12 digital GPIO’s. These board also come with expansion headers that includes 2 Analog inputs which will be useful for proximity sensors. The microcontroller allows for a Linux based OS called Linaro. This allows to download a Python IDE which will be utilized to control the overall project.
With further research, I found the board can only supply 1.8 V from the GPIO’s. this means transistors are required to control the H-Bridge circuit for the motors and an external power supply for the variety of sensors.