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LXRobotics

Pika Spark

Pika Spark

SKU: LXROBO000001PISPR11B

€450.00
€450.00
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The Pika Spark is an Arduino Portenta X8 based micro robot control system combining an unprecedented amount of computing power and interfaces within an extremely small form factor.

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Power Supply

  • Power-over-Ethernet (PoE via Gigabit-Ethernet)²
  • Power-over-Data-Lines (PoDL via Single-Pair Ethernet)²
  • USB-C

² Power supply via PoE and PoDL is also galvanically isolated.

This product includes the following parts:

  • 1 x Pika Spark
  • (1 x Arduino Portenta X8 for LXROBO000001PISPR11P)
  • 1 x Ethernet cable
  • 1 x set of heat sinks
  • 1 x Pika Spark debug adapter + pin header
  • 1 x 3D printed enclosure³

³ The enclosure is 3D-printed from ABS, HIPS, or nylon; please get in touch with sales@lxrobotics.com for additional options and special requests. The 3D model is available on GitHub.

Applications

  • Extremely small control unit for AGVs, AMRs and drones

Resources

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  • Technical Specifications

    Computing

    Micro-Processing-Unit (MPU)

    NXP i.MX 8M Mini Processor running Yocto Linux with ROS2 in Docker.

    • 4 x ARM Cortex-A53 up to 1.8 GHz / core
    • 1 x ARM Cortex-M4 up to 400 MHz
    • 2GB low power DDR4 DRAM
    • 16GB eMMC flash module

    Micro-Controller-Unit (MCU)

    STM32H747XI Micro-Control-Unit running bare-metal firmware for real-time applications.

    • Cortex-M7 core up to 480 MHz with double-precision FPU
    • Cortex-M4 core up to 240 MHz with FPU
    • 1 MB RAM
    • 2 MB Flash

    Sensors

    IMU

    1 x BNO085 9-DoF Inertial Measurement Unit

  • Interfaces

    CAN

    2 x CAN, CAN FD (galvanically isolated)

    RS485

    2 x RS485 (galvanically isolated)

    Gigabit-Ethernet

    1 x 1000BASE-T (1 GBit/s, galvanically isolated)

    Single-Pair Ethernet

    1 x 10BASE-T1S (multi-drop capable, 10 MBit/s, galvanically isolated)

    UART

    1 x Debug UART (115200 8N1)

    USB-C

    1 x USB-C for flashing the Yocto image and connecting via adb (Android Debug Bridge)

    WiFi

    1 x WiFi via Murata 1DX


    Miscellaneous

    Memory

    1 x 24LC256 (256 kBit) EEPROM for configuration storage