what do i need to do the programing for my robot in visual basic ie. drivers, commands, start up, intialize, etc./
well this is just a shot in the dark given the wealth of detailed information you supplied, but I’d start with figuring out what your robot has for electronics and how you plan on communicating with them and work from there.
i meant what do i need to get vb to communicate with the ssc-32 so i can do the commands and programing from there. with other boards i needed a activex driver, and then some intital commands to start the link between vb and the board.
The SSC-32 accepts standard ASCII text command over a serial port. It’s all in the SSC-32 manual.
8-Dale
yep, you should be able to use the standard mscomm interface in vb to send strings to the ssc-32. nice thing is you can test your code using two computers and a null-modem cable, the second computer running a terminal program like hyperterminal so you can see if you actually got out the serial port what you think you sent. 8)
If the computer program is bi directional, for testing you can just connect the tx and rx pins on the computer serial port and have the program read what it just sent.
you would have to modify or add to your code to do this. of course if you don’t have either two computers or a computer with two com ports on it…