Re: [Gumstix-users] BrainBot - a gumstix robot

[Bill G. <bg...@bi...>]

Jon Hylands wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Last night, with a recompile of the FT232 drivers thanks to my brother
> Dave, I got BrainBot working wirelessly.
>
> The basic layout is the "brain" software is running on my PC. Right now I'm
> just overriding it with a joystick to control the robot. On board the robot
> is my gumstix verdex XL6P, with a netwifimicro-SD module and an Audiostix2.
> The gumstix is using host USB to access the Bioloid bus (a 1.0 Mbps serial
> bus) through an FT232 chip. The Bioloid bus is a serial bus that controls
> devices (mainly servos) on Bioloid robots. See http://www.bioloid.info for
> more details.
>
> The software on the PC makes a socket connection with software running on
> the gumstix. Through this socket I send bus packets, which are forwarded to
> the appropriate device on the bus. The responses are send back through the
> socket to the PC. I made a custom bus device using an AVR ATmega168 which
> drives the tracked base through a Dimension Engineering Sabertooth 2x10
> motor driver.
>   

I for one welcome our new, Verdex-powered overlords.  :)


b.g.

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Bill Gatliff
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