Today I received my package from Sparkfun with a Blue Dongle, an antennae and a Bluetooth USB Dongle. I thought it would be fun to try it out both for an SSC-32 and more importantly into the ABB with the my Atom Pro.
Has anyone else played around with the Blue Dongle (plugs into the RS232 port). Any Luck? Does it properly control the RTS/CTS lines such that I can program the Atoms using it? It would be great to not have to worry about a USB to serial adapter any more.
This small dongle has a mini USB connector to allow you to plug it into a USB port to power it. I am hoping to cut up a mini-USB cable and maybe add a servo type connector on the other side so I can plug it into the ABB board. But first I need to figure out which pins it needs and what the allowable voltages are.
Another side question: Currently on my computer I have a Microsoft USB Bluetooth dongle that I have controlling a keyboard and a mouse. Should I try to configure a logical serial port on this to try to talk to the BlueSmirf, or would I be better off trying it using the Bluetooth Dongle (KB-018) I received from Sparkfun and install the BlueSoleil?
I think you can handle all of the bluetooth accessories, keyboard, mouse, and BlueSMiRF equipped robots all from either the MS USB one, or the SparkFun one, but I don’t see the benifit of having two bluetooth adaptors on the PC.
I know the SEQ program gets along great with the Bluetooth stuff, but RIOS is not. RIOS needs faster responces, and we were not able to tweek anything to make it work. We are modifying RIOS to provide the ability to vary the point interpolation timing. This should make RIOS a lot less dependant on fast responces. Unfortunately I do not hold any hope that you will be able to porogram an Atom through it. I hope I’m wrong, but I think the timing is way to critical for it to work. Please let us know what you get out of it.
