User Manual

The Status tab in the Maestro Control

Center.

• Free configuration and control application for

Windows and Linux makes it easy to:

◦ Configure and test your controller

◦ Create, run, and save sequences of servo

movements for animatronics and walking

robots

◦ Write, step through, and run scripts stored

in the servo controller

• Two ways to write software to control the Maestro from a PC:

◦ Virtual COM port makes it easy to send serial commands from any development

environment that supports serial communication

◦ Pololu USB Software Development Kit [https://www.pololu.com/docs/0J41] allows use

of more advanced native USB commands and includes example code in C#, Visual

Basic .NET, and Visual C++

• TTL serial features:

◦ Supports 300 – 200,000 bps in fixed-baud mode, 300 – 115,200 bps in autodetect-

baud mode

◦ Simultaneously supports the Pololu protocol, which gives access to advanced

functionality, and the simpler Scott Edwards MiniSSC II protocol (there is no need to

configure the device for a particular protocol mode)

◦ Can be daisy-chained with other Pololu servo and motor controllers using a single

serial transmit line

◦ Chain input allows reception of data from multiple Mini Maestros using a single

serial receive line without extra components (does not apply to Micro Maestros)

◦ Can function as a general-purpose USB-to-TTL serial adapter for projects controlled

from a PC

• Board can be powered off of USB or a 5 – 16 V battery, and it makes the regulated 5V

available to the user

• Upgradable firmware

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