Logitraxx Spartan-6-based tracked robot car debuts on Kickstarter

By: Steve Leibson, Director of Strategic Marketing and Business Planning, Xilinx

You've probably seen a lot of FPGA-based projects on Kickstarter, but few are as cool as the Logitraxx crawler robot vehicle platform. The developer took a simple (and dumb) Tamiya crawler chassis kit, threw in a dual-motor gearbox for control, and replaced the wooden chassis with a PCB based on a Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA. (The Spartan-6 series is one of Xilinx's three low-end product lines, the other two being the Artix-7 FPGA and the low-end Zynq All Programmable SoC device.)

By the way, the Logitraxx robot car is an open source project.

The Kickstarter video introduces the product and does a lot of explaining about the differences between MCU-based and FPGA-based robot control.

(It is recommended to use a WiFi environment to watch the video, or visit the original link to view)