Hello folks!
I have been working in a lab at Michigan Technological University to build a Bolt bipedal robot. I’ve kind of inherited the project from a previous set of students, and now I’ve been working with their things. We are able to communicate with the master board just fine over Ethernet and serial for flashing, but I’m now aware that the μDriver boards also need flashing.
Per the documentation here, the recommended JTAG emulator for flashing is (or rather, was) on Digikey as 702302-ND or under Farnell as 1831927. My understanding is that this adapter is not made anymore for some reason, and I won’t be able to purchase it from reputable suppliers.
So my question–are there suitable alternatives? I’ve come across parts like these that as far as I can tell would do similar things and in a nice package.
If this is a suitable replacement, I’ll probably order it and see if I can grab a launchpad controller in the meantime to show results.
On an unrelated note, the master board also does not talk to the IMU that we ordered for it. I am running the example generated from the SDK, and it does not see anything but 0.00’s from the IMU readout at the top of the terminal.
Thanks in advance for any help that you can give! I really appreciate the work that has been put into the project over the years, and will probably write-up rather extensively just exactly what I did to get this working so that hopefully it’s a little more straightforward than the experience that I’ve been having so far.