The Orangutan X2 is the third release in Pololu’s line of Orangutan robot controllers. Like the original Orangutan and subsequent Baby Orangutan, the Orangutan X2 is designed to be a compact, high-performance control center for robotics and automation projects. The Orangutan X2’s two-board design allows the unit to maintain the compactness characteristic of the Orangutan line while offering substantially more electrical and computational power: the X2 can deliver up to a horsepower across two motor channels, and the twin-microcontroller architecture allows maximum access to the primary microcontroller, an Atmel ATmega644 AVR running at 20 MHz with 64 kB of program memory and 4 kB of SRAM. It has an outline smaller than a credit card, which makes it small enough to fit in a mini-sumo or small maze solver, yet it is powerful enough to run a 1/10th-scale monster truck. A battery, motors, and sensors can be connected directly to the module for quick creation of advanced robots.