I have to admit that I’m a total noob to robotics as seen here. Have been a electronics tech for 40+ years and worked on mnay industrial type robots.
I have been reading all the info and data available here and trying to figure out which bot to start with first. I see the different program softwares avail and the flowbotics looks very good. So here is my stupid question.
Does FlowBotics work across the different robot platforms and boards available or just for Lynxmotion boards?
Thanks in advance for the help.
FlowBotics Studio is designed to be used with any robot platform. The current version does come with demo projects to get you up and running with Lynxmotion robots much quicker, but you can make new projects for any platform that is controlled with a Windows computer.
We are currently making new demo projects for other hardware controllers such as the Phidgets series of peripherals, and future versions of FlowBotics will support other operating systems and platforms such as Linux, Android, and other embedded systems.
Thanks for the reply. I was hoping that it did work with all boards and platforms, specifically the Arduino boards. Thought that would be a good place to start.
FlowBotics Studio does have a COM Port component that allows you send serial data to an Arduino, which can be either plugged directly into your computer with USB or can use a Bluetooth Bee and XBee Shield with your Arduino. If your computer doesn’t have built-in Bluetooth, you can use this adapter.
Again thank you for your response and help. I have been trying to familiarize myself with the software prior to my robot kit arrival.
Once again I have to show my noob ignorance but I’ve been looking and trying to find how to download a program to the Adruino board and how to select the appropriate board but not having any luck.
To be more specific I ordered the DFRobotshop Rover V2, autonomous kit. I would like to write the program using flowbotics and download to the rover adruino board. Am I missing something in my search or trying to use the flowbotics in a wrong application? Thanks for the help
The current FlowBotics Studio doesn’t yet support uploading its code to the Arduino, so you still have to develop the Arduino code using the Arduino IDE (arduino.cc/en/Main/Software).
However because FlowBotics does support the COM Port component, you can make a program in FlowBotics that communicates with the one that is uploaded to the Arduino in order to extend the Arduino’s capabilities and do new things that the Arduino by itself cannot, such as have an on-screen GUI and use keyboard inputs, or such as making requests to web resources.
