User Manual

1. Introduction

The Orangutan LV-168 attached to a 3-AA battery

holder.

Baby Orangutan B with included

header pins soldered in for

breadboard installation.

Arduino [http://www.arduino.cc/] is a popular, open-source prototyping platform that makes it easy for people with

little electronics experience to get into the world of microcontrollers and embedded programming. The Arduino

environment consists of an open-source integrated development environment (IDE) and compiler, software

libraries, and programmable hardware boards. This document explains how to program our Orangutan SV-

xx8 [https://www.pololu.com/product/1227], Orangutan LV-168 [https://www.pololu.com/product/775], Baby Orangutan

B [https://www.pololu.com/product/1220], and 3pi robot [https://www.pololu.com/product/975] from the Arduino IDE. The

Orangutans and the 3pi robot have a substantial degree of overlap with Arduinos because they use the same

ATmega328P and ATmega168 processors found on official Arduinos [https://www.pololu.com/category/125/arduino].

Our Orangutan robot controllers can therefore be an attractive alternative to official Arduino hardware for those

already familiar with the Arduino environment. Also, the Arduino IDE can be a beginner-friendly and cross-

platform alternative to Atmel Studio for those looking to get started with Orangutans.

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