hi, i am new to the forums and i have some limited experience with robotics. i have not used microcontrollers before though. i am writing to ask about programming the l6 arm. i am doing this as a school project and i pretty much inherited this robot form the previous student working on it. it ius completely assembled and the board is wired properly. what i need is how to program it, preferably without having to purchase a program such as rios. any help is appreciated greatly. i am using a ssc-32 board got a 9v to vl and a 7.2v to vs1.
Do you have a microcontroller that you would wish to use, or would you prefer to just use a PC?
What you do with your micro will depend upon what micro it is and what you’re programming it with.
In the end, though, the general idea is the same as what you’d need to do on a PC.
All you need to start out with a PC is a compiler that has access to the COM port that you plugged your SSC-32 into.
QBasic is the only popular compiler that I can think of that doesn’t have that access (if you use WindowsXP, that is; older versions of Windows allow QBasic that access).
Then all you need to do is have it send strings of characters out that comport.
The characters need to be in the format specified in the SSC-32 manual, and is quite straight-foreward.
Here’s some code examples in a few popular PC languages that I found when searching the site (the last happens to be my own):
lynxmotion.net/viewtopic.php?t=7 … ht=vbe+net
lynxmotion.net/viewtopic.php?t=3 … ht=express
lynxmotion.net/viewtopic.php?t=914&highlight=com
thanks for the help mano, definitely going to make my life easier. i am using the atmel ATMEGA8-16PI.