mbed PowerBoard on "real" PCBs

Now I have two sets of PowerBoard + DisplayBoard with professional PCBs. Both boards have gone through an additional bugfixing and redesign process before. On the DisplayBoard, there is now a compass module (so the robot knows the direction to the opposite goal). There's a ring of 8 LEDs around it, so the robot can show which direction the compass points to.

The 4 separate navigation keys have been merged into one 5-way NaviKey. This was necessary in order to get some free PCB area for the compass.

On the PowerBoard itself, I have used a bipolar transistor for the switched high-current output instead of the MOSFET - the latter one wouldn't switch reliably at 3.3V gate voltage. For faster edit-compile-download-run development cycles I have added a reset button which is easily reachable from the side. The mbed's reset button was just too difficult to reach under the DisplayBoard.

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You see that one board is equipped with yellow LEDs + display backlight, the other one is blue. This is for easier distinction during the robot soccer games.


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