Boe-Bot Robot for Microsoft Robotics Studio with a Spin Stamp Microcontroller
Andy Lindsay (Parallax)
Posts: 1,919
Updated for Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.5 (2/14/08)
In response to:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2412338&SiteID=1
SpinStampBoeBotControlForMSRSv1.5.zip is a Propeller microcontroller application·than can·be used with Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.5) BasicStamp2 services by making·a Spin Stamp·microcontroller emulate a BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller running BoeBotControlforMSRS.bs2.·
The most convenient way to update your Boe-Bot Robot Kit for Microsoft Robotics Studio to test this application is by replacing the kit's BASIC Stamp 2·Microcontroller with a Spin Stamp Microcontroller and Propeller Clip programming and communication tool.· Then, download Bluetooth Boe-Bot Kit for Microsoft Robotics Studio v1.5.pdf, and follow the instructions.· Whenever·they call for a .bs2 file, use the .spin file with the same name.
Developers are encouraged to modify and expand this code and the corresponding MSRS services, and also to create new ones.· Especially since the Spin Stamp's Propeller microcontroller is capable of multiprocessing, there are a lot of opportunities for new protocols and services.· New protocols can utilize buffered full duplex serial communication and will no longer have to cater to the BASIC Stamp module's tendency to ignore serial communication when it's doing other tasks.· New services can utilize the Propeller microcontroller's eight 80 MHz, 32 bit processors, 32 k of RAM, and 32 I/O pins (on most modules) to monitor and control much more challenging, high speed, and complex robotic systems.
Most of the objects used in this application are variations of objects presented in the Propeller Education Kit Lab Series.· The Propeller Education Kit and some of the PE Kit labs are available from the Propeller Education Kit page at www.parallax.com.· Additional labs and applications (some of which are reused here), are available from the Propeller Education Kit Labs page on the Propeller Forum at forums.parallax.com:
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=617192
For full Propeller microcontroller and language documentation, download the Propeller Manual from www.parallax.com.
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Andy Lindsay
Education Department
Parallax, Inc.
Post Edited (Andy Lindsay (Parallax)) : 2/16/2008 12:13:48 AM GMT
In response to:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2412338&SiteID=1
SpinStampBoeBotControlForMSRSv1.5.zip is a Propeller microcontroller application·than can·be used with Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.5) BasicStamp2 services by making·a Spin Stamp·microcontroller emulate a BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller running BoeBotControlforMSRS.bs2.·
The most convenient way to update your Boe-Bot Robot Kit for Microsoft Robotics Studio to test this application is by replacing the kit's BASIC Stamp 2·Microcontroller with a Spin Stamp Microcontroller and Propeller Clip programming and communication tool.· Then, download Bluetooth Boe-Bot Kit for Microsoft Robotics Studio v1.5.pdf, and follow the instructions.· Whenever·they call for a .bs2 file, use the .spin file with the same name.
Developers are encouraged to modify and expand this code and the corresponding MSRS services, and also to create new ones.· Especially since the Spin Stamp's Propeller microcontroller is capable of multiprocessing, there are a lot of opportunities for new protocols and services.· New protocols can utilize buffered full duplex serial communication and will no longer have to cater to the BASIC Stamp module's tendency to ignore serial communication when it's doing other tasks.· New services can utilize the Propeller microcontroller's eight 80 MHz, 32 bit processors, 32 k of RAM, and 32 I/O pins (on most modules) to monitor and control much more challenging, high speed, and complex robotic systems.
Most of the objects used in this application are variations of objects presented in the Propeller Education Kit Lab Series.· The Propeller Education Kit and some of the PE Kit labs are available from the Propeller Education Kit page at www.parallax.com.· Additional labs and applications (some of which are reused here), are available from the Propeller Education Kit Labs page on the Propeller Forum at forums.parallax.com:
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=617192
For full Propeller microcontroller and language documentation, download the Propeller Manual from www.parallax.com.
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Andy Lindsay
Education Department
Parallax, Inc.
Post Edited (Andy Lindsay (Parallax)) : 2/16/2008 12:13:48 AM GMT
Comments
I miss the text link page probably. Less noisy, and straightforward.·But then I like emacs too.
Post Edited (Fred Hawkins) : 1/6/2008 1:48:26 AM GMT
Post Edited (J.A.B.) : 1/6/2008 1:58:02 AM GMT
In addition to the above issues, you seem to have dropped all info' on quantity discounts too (e.g. 10 x Propeller chip).
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Cheers,
Simon
www.norfolkhelicopterclub.co.uk
You'll always have as many take-offs as landings, the trick is to be sure you can take-off again ;-)
BTW: I type as I'm thinking, so please don't take any offense at my writing style
Well done Andy! Now I just need to learn some more about Spin so that I can use the other cogs ...
By the way, the links to the Propellor Tool on the Propellor Chip pages are all to the old version 0.98. The Downloads page has the latest version 1.06.
Trevor