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## GPIO Pins
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The Arduino allows you to connect your kit to your own electronics. It has fourteen digital I/O pins, and six analogue input pins. The analogue pins can read an analogue signal from 0 to 5V. The board also has a couple of ground pins, as well as some pins fixed at 3.3V and 5V output.
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The Arduino allows you to connect your kit to your own electronics. It has fourteen digital I/O pins, and six analogue input pins. The analogue pins can read an analogue signal from 0 to 5V and the digital pins can receive or send digital signals at 0V & 5V. The board also has a couple of ground pins, as well as some pins fixed at 3.3V and 5V output to supply power to your sensors.
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The brain of your robot is a Raspberry Pi 3 / 3B+. This handles the running of your python code, recognition of markers and sends control commands to the other boards.
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The brain of your robot is a Raspberry Pi 3B+. This handles the running of your python code, recognition of markers and sends control commands to the other boards.
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## Power Hat
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Your robot is running a customised version of the [Raspberry Pi OS](https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/) operating system.
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When a USB stick is inserted, the SourceBots software will look for a file named `main.py`, and then execute it.
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When a USB stick is inserted, the SourceBots software will look for a file named `robot.py`, and then execute it.
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The output of your code is written to a file named `log.txt` on the USB stick.
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be used to power other devices. These are enabled when your robot code is
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started and can also be turned on or off from your code.
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There are two 5V connectors that can be used to connect low-current devices that take 5V inputs, such as the Raspberry Pi and the servo shield.
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There are two 5V connectors that can be used to connect low-current devices that take 5V inputs, such as the Raspberry Pi.
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There is also a Micro USB B connector which should be used to connect the Raspberry Pi for control of the power board.
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There is also a Micro USB B connector which should be connected to the Raspberry Pi for control of the power board.
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Finally, there are connectors for external Start and On|Off switches. You may connect any latching switch for the On|Off switch, or a push-to-make button for the Start button.
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| PWR\|FLAT | Green when powered<br />Flashing red and green when the battery is low | Green |
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| 5V | Green when 5V is being supplied | Green |
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| H0–1, L0–3 | Green when the corresponding output is on [^1]<br />Red when the output's current limit is reached | Off |
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| RUN\|ERROR | Orange on power-up, or USB reset <br />Flashing green when ready to run<br /> Solid green when running or booting | Orange |
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| RUN\|ERROR | Orange on power-up, or USB disconnection <br />Flashing green when ready to run<br /> Solid green when running or booting | Orange |
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[^1]: The outputs only turn on when your program runs (specifically, when the `Robot` object is created).
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On power-up, the Power Board will emit some beeps, which are related to the version of the firmware it has installed.
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On power-up and when waiting for the start button, the Power Board will beep once.
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If the Power Board starts beeping (and all the outputs turn off) then this means that the whole board's current limit has been triggered.
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