For the tail assembly, the kit I have came with a BotBoarduino. As per lynxmotion.com/images/html/build182.htm, can I directly install it as if it were the Bot Board II or is there another assembly guide? Also, in step 4 I have to insert a [font=Verdana][size=2]Basic Atom Pro 28 chip, does this should come with the kit*? *B[size=2]ecause I can’t identify it[/size] from the picture nor my part[size=2]s[/size] list. Or no BB2 -no chip?
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We essentially discontinued the A-Pod kit which included the Bot Board since the microcontroller was discontinued. There was no sample code which included the added functionality of the head or tail with the Botboarduino, so we have not released a version of the A-Pod with a microcontroller, which means you likely purchased the two separately. You can mount the BotBoarduino in the same location as the Bot Board would have been mounted, and follow the connection diagram for the Phoenix:
lynxmotion.com/driver.aspx?T … 04#phoenix
You should note: that The Bot Board II(BB2) (with a Basic Atom Pro 28 - BAP28) is very different than a Botboarduino. The BB2 is an adapter board that was made to hold a 28 pin (potentially a 24 as well) microcontroller, such as the Basic Stamp and in this case a BAP28. The Bap28 was made by a company called Basic Micro and program it in a flavor of the language Basic.
The Botboarduino is an Arduino board that has an Atmega 328 processor. In particular it is compatible with the Arduino Duemilanove. You use the Arduino IDE to program it in C/C++…
As Coleman mentioned, They dropped selling the BB2 as I don’t believe Basic Micro currently sells the BAP28. I think you can still pick one up from the company Basic Micro UK, however I don’t know of anyone still selling the BB2…
I have configurations of the Phoenix code for the Arduino working on almost all of the Lynxmotion hexapods. The one exception is the A-Pod, as I don’t have one. I do have a similar one by Orion Robotics (Basic Micro) github.com/KurtE/Orion)