The Kinect for the Xbox 360 uses two power sources: +5V from the USB and 12V 1.2A from an AC adaptor or the Xbox 360 itself. In order to use the Kinect for our SLAM drone, we needed to provide the second power source independently. Since the copter is running on 14.4V LiPo, we needed to create a power regulator circuit to step the voltage down and limit the current to 1 amp.
We decided to use TI's
LM2675, a 12V 1A buck regulator in a small IC package:
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| LM2675 12V 1A Voltage Regulator |
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| Copper pour for our first layout. |
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| First layout for our 12V 1A Regulator |
We ordered the first prototype for the board on 9-5:
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| OSHPark PCB Visualization |
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