Help with Boe-Bot

MacGeek117

I'm working on a merit badge and so I need to have a networked robot, but I can't seem to get the code to work, could I please have some help?
P.S. I need this done by Monday.

RoboGeek

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Post Edited (RoboGeek) : 10/16/2005 12:26:22 AM GMT

DiablodeMorte

RoboGeek said...
I'm working on a merit badge and so I need to have a networked robot, but I can't seem to get the code to work, could I please have some help?
P.S. I need this done by Monday.


RoboGeek

*cough* details?

allanlane5

Personally, I wouldn't use the hardware handshake. Instead, I would sent the message every 5 seconds, (or 100 mSec) and have the reciever ALWAYS ready to recieve and act.

You might want to try a recieve code that merely blinks an LED for each byte recieved, and use that to debug the 'master' program.

MacGeek117

DiablodeMorte said...

RoboGeek said...
I'm working on a merit badge and so I need to have a networked robot, but I can't seem to get the code to work, could I please have some help?
P.S. I need this done by Monday.


RoboGeek

*cough* details?

Not much. Pin 0 is a IR detector. Master is a Homework board. Slave, Boe-Bot. Robot responds to a tv remote.
RoboGeek

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Post Edited (RoboGeek) : 10/16/2005 12:26:36 AM GMT

Andy Lindsay (Parallax)

We still need more details before we can help. For example, what kind of circuit do you have on your BASIC Stamp HomeWork Board? What programs or techniques have you tried thus far? What resources have you already used (IR Remote for the Boe-Bot?).

I do know of an IR communication scheme that will get you well down the road with minimal hardware. Here is the link: Infrared Emitting Diode and 40 kHz Detector

The relevant material is in the last three or so pages of the PDF· (correction - pages 15 - 17). Your challenge from that point will be transmitting values to the Boe-Bot, and programming the Boe-Bot to correctly interpret and act upon the values it receives.

Post Edited (Andy Lindsay (Parallax)) : 10/2/2005 6:36:32 PM GMT

MacGeek117

I'm sorry to put you through all this trouble, I'm just going to network the two Stamps. Thank you for what help you could give me.
RoboGeek

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Post Edited (RoboGeek) : 10/16/2005 12:26:55 AM GMT

mm

Also your serin and serout flow controls, Tpin and Fpin, look wrong. From what I remember shouldn't it be SERIN SDI\FLCN, BAUD, [noparse][[/noparse]BS2code] and not SERIN SDI/FLCN, BAUD, [noparse][[/noparse]BS2code] ? look at the slash. I don't get an error when I do it either way so maybe some one at parallax can elaborate on this one. Also I don't have enough stamps available to put a master/slave setup together to see if the slash makes a difference.

Chris Savage

When specifying a flow control pin you must use backslash (\) not forward slash (/) which represents division.

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Chris Savage
Parallax Tech Support
csavage@parallax.com

MacGeek117

THANK YOU! I might just be able to get it to work now. THANK YOU!
RoboGeek

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