3 friends and I built this arm, one did the electronics, one did the base and I did the arm construction. The school ordered this arm with no software but I found Flowarm “should” work with the arm. It will not connect, not sure the jumpers are correct. Directions seem to be missing. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi,
Could you please post one or more pictures clearly showing the robotic arm and its electronics? It would also help if you could link to the product on our website. You can find a table showing all the Lynxmotion robotic arm kits here.
Please note that FlowArm PLTW is meant to connect to a Lynxmotion robotic arm kit that is controlled by a Lynxmotion SSC-32 / Lynxmotion SSC-32U (Bluetooth version), not a Lynxmotion BotBoarduino. If you wish to use a BotBoarduino with FlowArm PLTW it is possible but not a trivial task. You would need to program the BotBoarduino (using the Arduino IDE) to receive serial commands from the FlowArm PLTW software and simulate the response of an SSC-32/SSC-32U.
The simplest option is to have your school order an SSC-32U and replace the BotBoarduino with it. This will allow you to use the FlowArm PLTW software easily.
If you would rather program the BotBoarduino directly, you can find an example with basic inverse kinematics here. Please note that this example is meant to be used with a PS2 controller. You would need to modify the code to respond to a different input if you wish to control it from the computer, for example.
Sincerely,