Basic Atom Pro programming help

Lynxmotion Electronics & Software
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Ok… I’ve got time for this, but I am soo curious and wanting to know how to program basic, it’s killing me haha.
I got a huge kit from my uncle a little while back, and stayed up to the wee hours of the night for a weekend assembling all the parts, centering servos, etc. I got it now to the point where I have a 4wd1 rover with a L5 arm on top of it, a basic atom pro board, a scorpion motor controller, the 2400 mah 7.2v battery, and it is ready to rumble, well… almost ready.

I have the pro, so it’s timing is all out of whack for the programs that lynxmotion so generously supplies. I had been looking at you guys for a while when my uncle asked me what i was doing lately, i told him robotics, and he proceeded to help me put together an order list. He’s nice. so is lynxmotion though, i got the order promptly. I am very impressed with the packaging, thought cutting open all those heatsealed plastic baggies gets tiring haha.
Your website is amazing, it just needs way more pro support. You guys emphasize that the pro is faster and nicer, and you sell it for the same price. There is something wrong here.

I got the pro, needless to say, to control the rover and i am now able to drive around, but I need help understanding how to convert or make some new code that you guys could possibly post on your website for future pro users, so i can control my 4wd1 and l5 arm together.
Thanks in advance for any help.
John

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The honest to goodness truth is if you want to use the programs we wrote for PS2 RC for the 4WD1 and an Arm, it’s going to be much better to return the Pro in exchange for an Atom 28. The Pro can’t communicate with the PS2 controller on the Bot Boards port so you have to move it to different pins and solder in a pullup resistor. The timing changes for the Pro are not too difficult to deal with. The Pro has twice the resolution, so generally you double the values for the same result. This is a complicated project enough, nevermind dealing with the Pro changes. My recommendation is to go step by step using the tutorials. Don’t try and do everything all at once.

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The 4WD1 rover with an arm attached has it’s own tutorial.

lynxmotion.com/images/html/build085.htm

It doesn’t cover the mechanical aspect of attaching the arm to the expansion deck, that’s pretty straight forward stuff. It does cover the wiring and programming to bring it all together. It does use the SSC-32 for the arm control. It really makes it much easier than to try and do everthing from the Atom. Hope this helps, Jim