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Overview
If cumbersome wires, dirty circuitry, long time spans are things you hate while learning or building a prototype, you've hit the right place.
Here's an open-source prototyping device to help you learn easily, offers a broad scope of project making, and contains an inbuilt oscilloscope :O
So go ahead, grab one for yourself and start making robots, electronic marvels, internet of things projects etc. No matter if you're a high-school kid, a university student or an oldie, evive's your new buddy.
Happy to announce that the inDemand campaign has been concluded successfully and you shall visit evive at Indiegogo Marketplace to place new orders. We now ship within a week via FedEx for faster shipping and hassle-free custom clearance
If you are a makerspace/school/university/industry/etc. seeking help to run a STEM/tinkering program/competition/etc., drop a line to contact@evive.cc and we will help you prepare for the same
If you are someone looking forward to become a distributor/partner/investor in our business, kindly drop a line to bd@evive.cc
Home automation, internet of things, robotics, embedded systems- oh man! These cling to nerves of geeks like you. Hunger for making and creating technologies has brought humanity so far and will keep progressing us further. But being a part of this revolution ain't easy, learning and making technology projects comes with numerous hurdles. We want to challenge this and make learning and prototyping easy and effective for everyone. Here's the game, if you've faced some of the following problems, you're at the right place. Learning and making electronics/robotics projects is exciting but time consuming, boring and even depressing at times. It takes dozens of components to build even the simplest of projects and even after putting so much efforts, it seldom works without too many iterations/revisions. All this end up in complex wiring, dangling components and poor aesthetics of the project. Adding a new feature means spending on another shield/module, spending more time on wiring it together. And testing/debugging, hell! Get ready with your voltmeter, your ammeter, your function generators, your oscilloscopes and other expensive equipment. Why can't there be just one portable device with everything a maker needs and comforts our pains!
Sounds agreeable?... Absolutely! These guys said the same:
evive is the ultimate prototyping platform any maker would need. Made for all age groups, it serves learning, making and debugging applications. Why start from the beginning everytime when you can start ahead? This compact, portable prototyping device will do the job for you.
Buried under insurmountable number of components? Well, no more! When you have evive, that's all you need. It's awesome features and built-in components make it a one-stop solution for the maker community. And all of that at a very affordable price!
Features? See tech specs and find out.
Built on an Arduino MEGA (because the globe codes in Arduino IDE), it offers a menu based user interface on a screen, allowing you to choose from device functions and interact with hardware attached to evive. There are current & voltage sensing capabilities, which allow you to collect data, visualize it (remember the screen?) and log it with time stamps (real time clock, yay!)- debugging made easy. Say goodbye to shields because why waste money on bulky PCBs for Bluetooth, for Wi-Fi, for SD card support, for XBee support, for freaking anything! The device comes with built-in slots for these, stay shielded from shields. There are standard power supplies, variable power supplies, support for common sensors & actuators, a buzzer for audio feedback, a mini breadboard etc. And there's the mini oscilloscope feature as well.
Now save your time and grab an evive before I start telling you about reverse polarity protections, overcurrent & overvoltage protections etc. Wait! You went buying? There's more- a mini function generator, a hardware interaction panel, internal battery for portability, capacitive touch sensing inputs . . . . . . Sigh!
It's made for everyone! Whether you are a high school student, a college student, a hobbyist, a trainer, a professional, a scientist, a professor, a researcher or anybody who loves machines coming to life, evive will expand the horizons of your creativity in a cost effective way.
Students can learn more with evive by making projects using evive's easy to assemble DIY Learning Module Kits. These DIY kits are provided with proper documentation to help assemble robots together, which can then be operated with user-friendly and intuitive on-screen menu.
Kids love scratch, so do we! Though our firmware has been written on Arduino IDE, a Scratch interface has been developed to allow students program their projects without any hustle. In addition to these two, evive is compatible with Matlab, LabView, ROS, Python etc.
Our team and many DIYers have made some amazing and simple projects with evive. The tutorials to make them are well documented on Instructables. As already mentioned, evive offers a variety of learning accessories to play with. These are called DIY Learning Module Kits and are summarized below:
Designed with beginners and kids in mind, these learning modules offer a broad scope of project making duly accompanied with required content. Relevant documentation is provided with the kit to guide you through assembling and using evive to control them.
The variety of ways to power evive and your devices with it give you flexibility and enhance compatibility. The variable voltage supply can be controlled simply by rotating a knob. Unlike Arduino, you won't need a power supply everytime, as evive is portable with a 2600mAh Li-ion battery inside.
Avoid messy circuits by directly using on-board switches and potentiometers.
Could it be any simpler than plugging your hardware into evive and controlling directly from the on-screen user interface. There's an inbuilt motor driver with overcurrent protection to deal with heavy current carrying devices without posing any harm to evive.
evive offers a very novel way of interacting with your hardware and programs. You can also make your own user-defined functions and add them to evive's program using Arduino IDE or other compatible platforms. All you need to do is plug in your hardware, scroll down to your desired function and you're ready to go! LEDs and Buzzer are provide to give you feedback and alerts.
For all your analog sensing experiments, use evive's precise 24-bit Analog to Digital Converters with ±30V or ±5V voltage sensing ranges and ±3A current sensing range. With a Real Time Clock and SD Card, you can log all your measurements with timestamps.
You no more need to spend hundreds of dollars on an oscilloscope for your basic testing. evive has a built-in tiny 2-channel oscilloscope. Though it supports low frequencies (upto 1kHz), but they are sufficient for regular making needs. It has advanced features like time scaling, voltage scaling (20mV to 30V), current scaling (20mA to 3A), scanning modes, offset etc. It also features one-click Send to PC/Save to SD card options.
It brings the whole world of IoT to your Deck. Just place your favorite communication module without the need of any additional soldering or adapter.
Magic Lid has all the magic inside, it houses an Arduino Mega R3* and allows access to Arduino pinouts, an option to connect multiple shields and a bi-directional logic level shifter to support 3.3V I/O.
Its compact, light weight and drop-safe. Mounting holes are provided to fix evive directly on your robots.
Oh! What if you mistakely connect reverse battery terminals to evive, or supply a higher voltage or draw too much current from it? Don't worry, evive is capable of protecting itself from such mistakes!
evive is the first commercial product of Agilo Research, a startup by a group of student entrepreneurs from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), passionate about robotics, embedded systems and design.
Together, they hold an experience of working in the field of robotics and embedded systems for over 15 years in total, building robots for clubs and competitions representing IIT Kanpur. The experience includes designing a reactor cleaning robot for Reliance Industries, Jamnagar as a consultancy project; working with Boeing, GE and ISRO on internship/externship projects; one pending patent and 2 under filing. evive has been a part of India Innovation Growth Program 2.0 by Lockeed Martin-Tata Trusts-MIT Energy Initiative-IIMA-FICCI and earned jury's appreciation, has been one of the few Indian hardware products to successfully complete a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, won Hackaday Automation Challenge 2016 and made it to top 20 hardware products globally in the quest for Hackaday Prize 2016. There are other accolades as well, but covering everything will make the list too long for co-founders who are yet to hit 25 years of age.
Devices like XBEE, ESP etc work at 3.3V, but Arduino works at 5V TTL, so is there a risk of damage to such devices? No. evive includes Logic Level Converters to support all such devices.
Can I use Arduino shields with evive? Yes. But with evive, you most probably won't need to.
Can I use it with Windows/Linux/Mac OS? Yes. You can use it with any operation system which supports at least one of the development platforms we've mentioned.
Can I use evive to run an actuator which consumes very heavy current? Yes. Though evive can't supply more than 3A in total and 1A per motor driver channel, but you can use simply plug in your external motor driver to evive and control it through our hardware interface.
Is the Arduino MEGA used in evive is replaceable? Yes. The Arduino MEGA used can be replaced by accessing it by opening the bottom casing. Despite our efforts and your care, sometime things might blow up, that's why we have kept it replaceable.
Why is Arduino MEGA marked with a *? Arduino is open-source and lots of manufacturers have started making it. We are giving you an option for both Original Arduino (Genuino) MEGA 2560 R3 or compatible boards which are exactly the same but from a different manufacturer. By default, we will ship evive with Compatible Arduino board, but we strongly recommend to upgrade it to Official Arduino (Genuino) boards.
Where are the software and hardware files available? The hardware and software files behind evive are available at our GitHub Repository.
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Contents: 1 x evive + 1 x USB A to B Cable + 1 x Sensing Cables + 1 x 12V2A DC Adapter + 1 x DC to Terminal Block + 60 x Jumper Cables + 1 x WiFi Module + 1 x Bluetooth Module [Perk ships within a month from order date]
5 claimed
Ships worldwide.
DIY Learning Module
$49 USD
Choose an experimental setup/project kit from the following for $49 per kit:
(1) Starter Kit,
(2) Modular Mobile Robot,
(3) Robotic Arm,
(4) Home Automation Kit.
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Applicable only as an add-on perk.
Ships with your evive.
28 claimed
Ships worldwide.
evive
$109 USD$125 USD(12% off)
Contents: 1 x evive + accessories (1 x USB A to B Cable + 1 x Sensing Cables) [Perk ships within a month from order date]