Activity Bot - Well Done Parallax!

Mike G

I assembled my Activity Bot this weekend. Well done Parallax! I had a very positive experience from opening the box to calibrating the Activity Bot on the kitchen floor. No tools needed, everything required was in the box. The little wrench – awesome.

I went through many of the http://learn.parallax.com tutorials. It is easy to recognize the care detail that went into creating the documentation.

The only stumble points were my own doing. I reversed a servo wire on assembly. I didn't figure it out until the calibration step as one wheel never turned.

Simple IDE threw a file not found error when switching to a new tutorial. Reading the documentation a little closer fixed my confusion. It was merely a matter of understanding Simple IDE projects.

Again well done!

Earl Foster

I second that. I have been away from this hobby for the past 4 years and decided to get back into it again with the ActivityBot. Working in "C" and with encoders attracted me to the ActivityBot. I too fumbled over one of the early math tutorials and went to the basic "C" tutorials to see what I missed. In my SimpleIDE while doing the "Floating Point Math" tutorial I had to check "32bit double" on the compiler tab or I would receive the same error I was getting that made me look at the basic "C" tutorials to begin with it.

Steph Lindsay

Thank you so much for the kind words Mike and Earl — they keep us going!

Roy Eltham

I got my ActivityBot yesterday, built it last night, and then went through the tutorials. It all worked very nicely. Great job on the tutorials and the abcalibrate/abdrive libraries! It really made it easy to get the bot driving around and in straight lines properly.