Hi Paul,
Following your suggestion, I am posting a request for a carrier board for the Teensy 3.1. Suggestions for the carrier board are that in addition to a socket for the Teensy, it would have the leads brought out in a fashion useful for the connection of external devices. Something like ground/power pins for every one or maybe two connections (for connecting pwm to motors or maybe servos). There is an example from KurtE of a carrier board he is making in the post at:
http://forum.pjrc.com/threads/24649...an-amazing-price?p=42063&viewfull=1#post42063.
This looks like a good starting place. I believe such a carrier is really necessary and am stopped from using the Teensy in projects by the knowledge that I will have to design and build something similar before I can actually use the Teensy. As an example, for a robot, I would like to see four pwm connections with pwr/gnd and four encoder connections with two digital pins, pwr and gnd on each. One might even consider some voltage level shifting, especially on analog to handle 5v sensors. Some good options on power connection would also be nice (batteries?).
This carrier board would be more expensive than the Teensy, of course, and would preferably have the surface mount components already installed. I believe it would greatly enhance the Teensy, however, by reducing the effort to employ it in a new project. I suppose it might even be possible to provide processor upgrades to the carrier if the Teensy 4+ maintained the pinouts.
Thanks for reading my suggestion,
Duane
Following your suggestion, I am posting a request for a carrier board for the Teensy 3.1. Suggestions for the carrier board are that in addition to a socket for the Teensy, it would have the leads brought out in a fashion useful for the connection of external devices. Something like ground/power pins for every one or maybe two connections (for connecting pwm to motors or maybe servos). There is an example from KurtE of a carrier board he is making in the post at:
http://forum.pjrc.com/threads/24649...an-amazing-price?p=42063&viewfull=1#post42063.
This looks like a good starting place. I believe such a carrier is really necessary and am stopped from using the Teensy in projects by the knowledge that I will have to design and build something similar before I can actually use the Teensy. As an example, for a robot, I would like to see four pwm connections with pwr/gnd and four encoder connections with two digital pins, pwr and gnd on each. One might even consider some voltage level shifting, especially on analog to handle 5v sensors. Some good options on power connection would also be nice (batteries?).
This carrier board would be more expensive than the Teensy, of course, and would preferably have the surface mount components already installed. I believe it would greatly enhance the Teensy, however, by reducing the effort to employ it in a new project. I suppose it might even be possible to provide processor upgrades to the carrier if the Teensy 4+ maintained the pinouts.
Thanks for reading my suggestion,
Duane