Hello, I'm not very good in English, so sorry for my mistakes. I'm a beginner in robotic, I want to build a little robot with the UDOOx86 Advanced Plus board. I have a 4WD platform with 4 DC motors powered by AA batteries : https://www.robotshop.com/en/dfrobot-4wd-arduino-mobile-platform.html https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-motor-shield-v2-for-arduino/overview Is the Adafruit motor shield V2 compatible with Udoo x86 ? Is there anything else to buy to make the motors work ? (like additional wires or something to connect the shield with the Arduino ?) In addition, I search a mobile battery for my Udoo x86, I don't know what is compatible. So if you can help me, thank you ! If you have some video tutorials, please share them.
According Intel it is compatible (page 74): https://www.intel.com/content/dam/s...its/curie/intel-curie-shield-compat-guide.pdf There is also a reference to this Intel report on this Udoo documentation page: https://www.udoo.org/docs-x86/Arduino_101_(Intel_Curie)/Pinout.html
For mobile battery there is no direct solution, at least I cannot remember any user confirming using one You can use any battery that is powerful enough for the Udoo X86 ánd your motors. Be aware Udoo X86 needs 12V +/- 5% (which disqualifies a lot of powerbanks) https://www.udoo.org/forum/threads/udoo-x86-input-voltage-range.4919/
Thanks waltervl, The voltage must be 12V +/- 5% and stable with a DC-DC converter, is it right ? And what about the A of the battery ? I read that Udoo x86 needs 3A, but is it for an hour ? So the battery can outputs 12V with 9Ah and the board will be powered for 3 hours ? Or a too high Ah can damage the board ?
Yes that's is correct. The Udoo itself needs 1-2 A but if you connect extra hardware (WiFi, harddisk, Arduino 101 sensors etc) you need more, that is why Udoo advices minimal 3A power supply. For your configuration you have to do the math yourself. Take all the hardware you would like to power, calculate the sum of current (A) for 12V and decide how long the batteries have to power your configuration. That will give you the Ah capacity of the battery pack (for 12V). You can look up the power consumption of the Udoo X86 in the hardware manual you can download Frome here https://www.udoo.org/docs-x86/Hardware_Reference/Resources.html
