PS2 configuration w/ ssc and atom

borgiee · February 23, 2012, 4:20pm

I am new to this arm and I don’t know how to download the program from the guide on the website , any help is appreciated .

Thanks!

robotdude · February 23, 2012, 4:32pm

Welcome to the forum.

Which arm?

Which guide?

Atom or Atom Pro?

I’d like to help, please use more words.

borgiee · February 23, 2012, 4:53pm

Sorry for the lack of words, was in a hurry.

I am using the AL5D, and the atom pro.

this is the link to the guide I’m using and I have the ssc and bot board.

and this is the guide I am using:

lynxmotion.com/images/html/build091.htm

Thanks!!!

robotdude · February 23, 2012, 5:01pm

In the same place you found the link there is a section at the top that says Read these first! you will see this post.

Tutorial for BASIC Atom Pro Studio programming
lynxmotion.com/images/html/build157.htm

While you are here you may as well check out the thread for the Science Olympiad.

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7923

borgiee · February 23, 2012, 5:08pm

I see that I am supposed to power the bot board with a 9v but when I connect the bot board to the ssc board it lights up without any power applied to the board itself and when I attached the wiring the lights get extremely bright and I don’t want to blow the board or anything…

borgiee · February 23, 2012, 5:16pm

Now i had it setup like I did before and the bot board light won’t light up at all anymore…

robotdude · February 23, 2012, 5:28pm

Post images of your wiring.

“it lights up” define it.

Extremely bright LED’s does not sound good. It’s possible the board/boards may have been damaged.

borgiee · February 23, 2012, 5:39pm

This is the wiring, and if the board is shot is there a way to trade it for another?

robotdude · February 23, 2012, 6:16pm

I think some things have been changed since the bright LED symptoms eh?

Lets start troubleshooting…

Disconnect everything. Apply the 9vdc battery to the VL terminals on the SSC-32 and verify the 5vdc regulator is providing the proper voltage. Verify the green LED lights up. Now do the same thing for the BotBoard II. What do you get?

borgiee · February 23, 2012, 7:15pm

yes all that i did before was plug the 9v into the bot board and attempted to turn it on and it all just turned off but the ssc is still fine. I attached the bot board to the power and attempted to turn it on but no luck. I believe its fried.

robotdude · February 23, 2012, 7:50pm

Do you have a volt meter?

borgiee · February 24, 2012, 3:46pm

yessdssssssssss i do :mrgreen:

kurte · February 24, 2012, 4:17pm

If it were me, I would connect the 9V battery to VL and then with your volt meter check to see the voltage coming out. You can simply check at one of the +5V voltage shorting bars, as shown as #13 in the diagram of the BB2 in the document: lynxmotion.com/images/data/abbpdf02.pdf

It should be +5V… If that fails, I would make sure all of the other jumpers are removed and see if that helps. If not

Kurt

borgiee · February 28, 2012, 4:11pm

Ok I figured out the problem and it all reads out. Now I have a question on programming the atom pro. I loaded the program and evverything onto basic micro studio but when I follow the tutorial it says it found the bot board on com1 but when i press connect at the bottom it won’t allow me to program it. Have been searching for help but no luck, Thanks again!

borgiee · February 28, 2012, 4:25pm

Nevermind found the answer to my problem, now the only thing that isn’t working is that the ps2 wireless receiver that plugs into the bot board isnt lighting up, could it be a lack of power to the board?

kurte · February 28, 2012, 5:27pm

I am glad that you were able to solve your problem of not being able to program the Basic Atom Pro. As for the PS2 receiver, would need more information to be able to help. Things like how is it wired (picture help here).
Which PS2 receiver? What are the power jumper shunts set to for the IO pins? Should be for +5v for the IO pins 12-15. What power are you giving the board…

Kurt

borgiee · February 28, 2012, 7:16pm

Here is the picture and I don’t know what I need to do to power the bot board, I’m sure I am missing something but I don’t want to mess anything up to the point of no repair.

borgiee · February 28, 2012, 7:18pm

if I run a wire, with the jumpers connecting vs1 and vs2, from vs2 ont the ssc to vl on the bot board with one 9v battery , will that be enough power to power both or is there something I shouldn’t do with that?

colorasplosion · February 28, 2012, 7:45pm

Not exactly the recommended approach since you lose all benefits of using the 9v battery in the first place. Just take those same wires and connect them from the SSC-32’s VL to the Bot Board II’s VL. It’s ok to have two wires connected.

robotdude · February 28, 2012, 8:01pm

Here is the wiring diagram from the tutorial you are using… What’s the problem?