making a robot programabl by MSRS / VPL

Question

Hi All I was wondering if I wanted to build a robot that can be programmed by MSRS or VPL what is the cheapest hardware configuration I need…

Would some one be able to show me a schemmatic?

I would like to controll it via blue tooth RS232 and it will have about 12 DOF and about 12 sensors My question is:
 
How will this software program a micro controller?
And what is the cheapest micro controller needed?

Answer 1

Hi,

I think you might have the wrong idea about RDS. It does not allow you to program microcontrollers.

What you need to do is choose a microcontroller yourself, then write some code on the microcontroller to talk to its serial port.

On the RDS side you have to write a service that talks to the microcontroller, also using a serial port.

Then you can attach serial to Bluetooth devices at each end to make the connection.

The service that you write for RDS will appear in VPL automatically.

Trevor

P.S. You might get some suggestions and hardware support from other members of the forum.

Answer 2

Hi Trevor

Thank you very mutch for thr reply...

It seems that i am still not getting far what i wanted to do... L after writing a program on VPL such as if button pressed then light led... my microcontroller is a PIC ...   how do mount this program to the development board or see the source code that will be compiled to a robot sutch as the NXT, SERIALIZER WL OR Parallax Boe - Bot Robot Kit. So that I understand how   does the VPL talk to the hardware....

Regards

Joe

Answer 3

VPL does not generate code for the NXT, Boe-Bot or any other robot with a PIC microcontroller. You have to create code yourself for the PIC using whatever tools are appropriate. That code needs to talk to a serial port on the robot.

Then you can write a service in C# on your PC that communicates with the robot using the serial port. In effect, the RDS service remotely controls the robot.

We supply services for the LEGO NXT for example, but what this code does is talk to the NXT "brick" using Bluetooth. There is no code that we load into the brick, so there is no source code for you to see that runs on the robot itself. All the LEGO NXT services are in C# and run on a PC under Windows.

Trevor

Answer 4

@Trevor Taylo   please sir may you help me i have some ideas a bout control nxt by Bluetooth i have to understand it this my email [e-mail]

thanks in advance 

Answer 5

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Trevor