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vrossi
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Date Joined Sep 2008
Total Posts : 38
| Posted 11/20/2008 3:04 PM (GMT -7) |   | Hundreds of programs have already been written for the Penguin; each of them gives him a specific ability. Each time you want to make your Penguin behave in a different way, however, you have to turn your Penguin off, connect him TO a PC, load another program, disconnect him from the PC and finally get him doing what you wanted. Now, instead, you can simply load once this Big Brain program and then enjoy many of the best Penguin behaviours without reconnecting him to the PC.
In this way the Penguin is finally free; he is not a slave of the PC anymore. He can autonomously sing, dance, walk, navigate toward the light, migrate North, play a radio station, according to what you ask him.
If you want to run some different behaviour, however, it's easy to replace any of these programs with other Penguin programs of your choice.
The Big Brain leverages the great power of the BS2PX microcontoller, by defining a Main Program and 6 Dependent Programs. The Main Program, which act as a menu, allows you to tell the Penguin what to do, and is loaded in slot 0.
According to your choice, it loads the EEPROM page (1 through 6), containing the Dependent Program corresponding to the selected behaviour.
You can download the Big Brain program from the page www.p-robot.com/index.php/other.html .
Download the zip file in a folder on your PC; then load the program Penguin_Big_Brain_v10.bpx in the Basic Stamp Editor. It will automatically load also the 6 Dependent programs. Please follow the instructions contained in the main program.Post Edited (vrossi) : 8/21/2009 5:54:49 PM GMT | | Back to Top | | |
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Humanoido
Simple Parallax Projects
Date Joined Jul 2007
Total Posts : 1684
|  Posted 11/20/2008 8:23 PM (GMT -7) | | vrossi, this is an absolutely fabulous, well written, finely
documented, code addition to the Penguin Robot
Suite of software! It provides successful examples
of a new way to combine Penguin programs and
extend the Brain Power of Penguin for the first time.
This code structure will lead to more artificial
intelligence for Penguin, and greatly expand the
user panel of available capabilities. Job well done!
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SRLM
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Date Joined Jul 2008
Total Posts : 2995
| Posted 11/21/2008 12:19 AM (GMT -7) | | | The brilliant idea that nobody's done before... (or at least actually got coded!) I like it. | | Back to Top | | |
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Humanoido
Simple Parallax Projects
Date Joined Jul 2007
Total Posts : 1684
| Posted 12/22/2008 12:39 AM (GMT -7) | | Excellent update and use of my reset keyboard! :)
Very good popularization of the multiple memory
page concept which will allow more use of the
many wonderful Penguin programs already
available. It will be interesting to mix and match
program sets, such as various ways to walk,
or a group of security programs, etc.
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