I want to try to control my Pheonix Hexapod with an old HP IPAQ 2200 series PDA, the problem is I have no idea how. I have searched the forums and cannot find anything. I have the SSC32 as well as the Bot Board II and the Basic Atom Pro. Is it possible to connect this via the serial port (number 1) and what software would I use to control it? The end result (long term goal) is to use the PING sensor or IR sensor to let him roam around the room or house. Anyone help me here?
Um, probably the single most important and relavent question is if you have some way to program, or write programs on, your PDA. Is there a C compiler, a BASIC compiler, JAVA, anything you can write a program and access either a built-in serial port or USB to serial adapter? Short of something like that you would need to come up with an alternative, perhaps something like handhelds.org/projects/h2200.html where you could then use gcc or some other language to write programs to control the ssc-32 or communicate with a program you’ve written for the Atom.
Hi, I don’t know if your IPAQ has (or supports) Bluetooth, but this link has some good info on programming a pocket PC to do something useful over a serial link.
Ah there ya go, take Orac’s link (kill the spam popup thing so you can see the page) and scroll down to about the 8th image and they talk about a basic compiler for PDAs.
hello,
Embedded Visual Basic or embedded visual C+ are also possible.