topic Re: Nuts and Volts Robot... in 8-bit Microcontrollers

Nuts and Volts Robot...

kramkimby — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:36:12 GMT

Hello,

There was a month article dedicated to the zigbee development boards utilizing it as a remote robot. I'm in the process of trying to develope my senior project from those articles but there are a number of referenced sites that no longer exist, not to mention, the articles are kind of sketchy on what apps to use and when.

I purhcased the development boards back in september of 2006 and the articles are from may 2006 and they reference a, "UART demo" program that I can't seem to find anywhere. What I'm ideally looking for is a GUI interface that will allow me to control a differential set of motors, both on moving forward, one on moving left/right... Can someone guide me in a direction on where I can find this demo and maybe some documentation that might help guide me through the process of installing and utilizing it?

Thanks,
Mark

Re: Nuts and Volts Robot...

stevasway — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:52:14 GMT

Hi Mark,
download BeeKit, use Beekit SMAC codebase and make a new project choosing Wireless UART.
In this way the Beekit toolkit will generate a Wireless UART project.

Pay attention to the code because, in my opinion is not a good solution, is not a real wireless uart (if you try to send a stream you'll get some surprises...)

Bye
Stevasway

Re: Nuts and Volts Robot...

kramkimby — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:36:01 GMT

Stevasway,

Hey thanks for the info, I actually did download that Beekit package this past weekend. I wasn't sure which program to use. I'm really pretty software illiterate. I have taken a handful of courses in assembly, C and C++ but it was a number of years ago and I guess I'm just not confident in writing code and getting an output/GUI interface that I can utilize in wondows. I will try and use the UART program but it sounds like it's not really that robust.

If you have any other suggestions on how I should proceed, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks again,

Mark

Re: Nuts and Volts Robot...

stevasway — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:19:07 GMT

Hi Mark,
once you generated the Wireless UART project with BeeKit, you can try to remove the ACK handshake in the code, then you should to use a circular buffer to tx and rx.

Bye
Stevasway