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jDrones News: jD-IOBoard v1.0

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jDrones News: jD-IOBoard v1.0 update

 

You had some problems on driving LED strips or something else?? Well no problems anymore.... We have seen people making all type of darlington/transistor and similar hacks to drive their LEDs, Sirens and so on but they all need a lot of hacking and they might not be suitable for long term solution. 

We answered on this call and made fully Arduino compatible called jD-IOBoard that can run Single LEDs, LED Strips, Loudspeakers, Buzzers, Power switches and so on. It's upto your own imagination on what all you can control with this board. 

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So what does this board actually do?? It has fully Arduino compatible ATMEGA 328 MCU and Darlington array to driver high power outputs. Also I2C pins are exposed and same as many TTL level IO and Analog pins. As you can see from picture above. 

 

Board has:

- 6 x High power outputs, max. 500mAh / 50 Volts

- 4 x Analog inputs (6 if you don't use I2C port)

- I2C port for controlling, listening I2C messages

- 6 x TTL level GPIO pins (8 if you don't use FTDI)

- 1 x FTDI port

 

3 high power outputs can also be controlled by PWM output while another 3 are just normal "On/Off" outputs

 

 

How those Arduino pinouts looks like:

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Connecting LED's,Buzzers etc is really simple. Just use one of output pins on end of the board. Below you can see examples on how to connect LEDs or LED Strips on it.

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Pictures does not give enough credit for how it works so we made small video to show just few examples on how to use it. There are many other ways to do it but this should give at least some idea what/how to run it. So have fun watching it.

 

Get yours from jDrones Store: jD-IOBoard and have a blink blink.

 

Ps. There are some nice features coming to this board shortly...

 

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  • Thanks Jani..!!

  • Developer

    Stefano, it all depends of Martin who runs BYOD but i think that eventually they will end to there too.

    Mohd, thank you, our people will pack it today and ship it for you :)

  • Greeting all i already purchased the ioboard telemetry distribution board from jdrones :)

  • Jani, any plan to resell "distribution board" thru Build your own Drone for europe?

    tks

    Stefano

  • Good work Jani.

    Would I be right in thinking that on the telemetry distribution boards, the 4 lines coming of the 4 pin headers are:

    Rx, Tx, +5v and Gnd ?

     

    Just thought I would check whilst arranging my wiring :)

     

    All the best,


    Steve

  • Thanks Jani for the update i'll purchase it soon and yur new IObaord maybe .. :)
  • Developer

    Also we have new jD-IOBoard v1.1 out. Few nice changes compared to v1.0.

    Battery input has not both +12V/GND pins nicely arranged. One high input port was moved to be as on side of the board and side pin moved to high input. They are Digital PINs 2 and 7. We basically did swap them and this way we have now Interrupt capable pin exposed on side of the board.

    Also silkscreens have been updated on IOBoard.

    We are now updating storepages and also jDoc pages for it. 

  • Developer

    Yes it is, you can find it from jDrones store under Telemetry areas

    Bluetooth telemetry
    Long range telemetry set for all your UAV and UAS needs
  • Hi Jani ! is the board out already .?

  • At last Thanks jani also been waiting for this device as yur ioboard is now working perfectly on my drone 

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