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Bill Merryman — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:17:23 -0000

I redid the repo from scratch. There are now three directories: one for the firmware code, one for the android control program, and one for various utilities I will put together over time. I have made some improvements since the last version. First, I corrected the 'hiccup' that was occurring during servo play that was really noticeable under slow acceleration situations (turns out I was missing an update during phase change). I also changed the way the timer interrupts work so that they use CTC instead of overflow. All messaging on the RS232 and Dynamixel buses is now interrupt driven. There is a C# application I put together in the utilities directory now that will take a text dump of the traffic on the servo bus (which can be recorded using a USB2Dynamixel and 'HHD Free Serial Port Monitor', which as the name implies can be downloaded for free) and parse it for display in a readable format in an Excel spreadsheet (Excel required). Thank you for bearing with me while I get a grip on Git.

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Bill Merryman — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:24:36 -0000

Just added the Bluetooth controller for Android in the files section as a Zip. I will try to incorporate it under Git when I get a chance. I believe I have it set up to run under Android 2.3 or later.

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Bill Merryman — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:18:13 -0000

Here is a link to the video I created demonstrating my FireFly bluetooth hack for the CM-5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6A7smv4dJ0 . I like this better than the BlueSmirf hack I've seen, as it requires no modification to the CM-5 enclosure. The FireFly fits right in the space which the ZigBee would occupy.

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Bill Merryman — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:12:46 -0000