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Eddie control board language options

TimbotronicTimbotronic Posts: 7
edited 2014-04-18 16:31 in General Discussion
First time post...

I just met a cool older guy who would like me to help him build a robot (The Eddie robot ). Except, he doesn't have the kinect or the laptop. Pretty much we just have the board, the sensors, and the motors. I've found that the Eddie robot is normally programmed using microsoft robotics developer studio, but I have no experience with this program. I do have experience programming in c and I'm pretty familiar with the arduino programming environment. Does anyone know what the options are for programming environments and languages are for the Eddie control board?

Hopefully the eddie control board is not too obscure being that it has been officially retired.

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  • Brian_BBrian_B Posts: 842
    edited 2014-04-13 17:12
    Hi,
    You can just program it using spin, asm or c for the propeller. I would not waste my time with the MRDS ,the last time I looked at the website everything was obsolete. If you study the eddie command set you can hook up a xbee , modify the code a little bit and control it with a computer with another xbee hooked to it (see xbee tutorial).

    Brian
  • TimbotronicTimbotronic Posts: 7
    edited 2014-04-15 11:31
    Awesome! Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for. I downloaded the simpleIDE and ran a few test programs (after figuring out that the board had to be externally powered). Also, I'm glad you mentioned the xbee, those modules are definitely going to come in handy.

    Thanks again,
    Tim
  • TimbotronicTimbotronic Posts: 7
    edited 2014-04-18 02:01
    So, the The simpleIDE works great, I have the board externally powered, the drivers are installed, but I'm unable to assign the pins to number like I've done with other boards. There must be some other command. I tried the example programs but nothing happens. Does anyone know where I can find information on how to program this bad boy?

    Tim
  • Brian_BBrian_B Posts: 842
    edited 2014-04-18 16:31
    I was hoping that Andy would jump in on this, I took the eddie board off mine and threw on a board of education to program in C. Not saying the eddie board can't be programmed in C ,I just didn't have time to configure everything.

    Hmmm,
    The eddie has ADC and it uses PWM to drive wheels. I don't think the scribbler has any C library's ,that would be pretty close. I'll have to think on it.

    Brian

    I have no clue why configure shows up twice ,if I take one away both are gone
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