10/10/12
With the helpful guys at Robonor.no, I've ordered the following parts for my project:
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| Arrived in the mail today, UNO R3 from Robonor |
- Sparkfun Inventor's Kit for Arduino
- Arduino Beginner Tool Kit Robonor (Soldering kit)
- Digital Multimeter Electrical Meter DT 9205A
- Battery pack - 4xAA
- Serial Enabled 16x2 LCD - Black on Green 5V
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| Dagu 4 motor controller is on it's way from England! |
I will eventually get the Rover5 4-engined robot, but as the Dagu controller card is hard to get, I have to put this on hold for a while. At the moment, I will have enough to do by going trough the basics! When the Rover is in place, I will get an Mega ADK board for my Android phone to utilize all the sensors.
I have ordered the Dagu controller from the UK along with an IR compund eye from RoboSavvy. I'll slip right under the 20 pound tax limit! This could take a cool
Meanwhile,I'll get to program the Arduino controller and hooking up the LCD display.
Fun times!
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| Serial Enabled 16x2 LCD - Black on Green 5V |
11/10/12
Got an old laptop from a friend for fixing his new one and installing games and a 'safe' browsing environment. Not too bad either, Dual core AMD Turion with 2 gigs and 256 mb shared gfx memory. Will probably install XP in this to use all the easily available Arduino tools, and run Linux in a VM to run electronics software.
Postal service reports that the package has been received and will probably end up here tomorrow afternoon :)
13/10/12
Picked up package today, everything was included as far as I can tell, except the 3-pin serial LCD, but i actually got a much better LCD with a mounted backpack, so this should be a serious upgrade! Thanks Robonor! Quick delivery too!
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| Graphic LCD Serial Backpack |
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| Serial Graphic LCD 128x64 |
First testing footage
From the Circ-02 tutorial with 8 leds
Well, cannot complain, everything worked as expected!
Some software I probably need:
http://www.atmel.com/tools/AVR32STUDIO2_6.aspx
14/10/12
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| Some connectors was badly soldered from the factory. Fixed that and now it should work. Pixels was all over the screen. |
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| Some error in the manual it seems. It won't work from the 5.5v line, have to use Vin. Here you can see the Sparkfun icon! |
Some software I probably need:
http://www.atmel.com/tools/AVR32STUDIO2_6.aspx
