In the spirit of doing a kick start to get my butt on the move, my grandson will be spending the weekend with us and I am going to take the opportunity to work with him on the iRobot Create. I now have a battery and battery charger for the Chumby so I should be able to do the following:
(1) Test the iRobot Create Command Module development environment by compiling a few of the Create test programs and downloading them to the Command Module and executing. This should enable us to be able to try out some different test sequences that we can dream up on the fly, program, and download.
(2) Test the Chumby development environment by writing a test program to be executed via the USB-Serial cable from the Chumby to the iRobot Create. This should enable us to be able to command the Create via the Chumby through the serial cable. I would like to try out some of the test sequences that we did through the Command Module this way.
The first test should be straight forward except for communicating with the Command Module via a USB cable on the Ubuntu Laptop. I already have the test environment made, I just have not tested it out yet. Maybe I might try out the connection tonight after dinner just to make sure that it is working correctly and to see what problems show up (guaranteed to happen). The second test will make sure that I know how to find my way around the Chumby development environment and how to command the USB-Serial line correctly. That last part will probably be the kicker to getting a decent test sometime during the weekend. And oh yea, I have some work-work that I have to get done as well.
(1) Test the iRobot Create Command Module development environment by compiling a few of the Create test programs and downloading them to the Command Module and executing. This should enable us to be able to try out some different test sequences that we can dream up on the fly, program, and download.
(2) Test the Chumby development environment by writing a test program to be executed via the USB-Serial cable from the Chumby to the iRobot Create. This should enable us to be able to command the Create via the Chumby through the serial cable. I would like to try out some of the test sequences that we did through the Command Module this way.
The first test should be straight forward except for communicating with the Command Module via a USB cable on the Ubuntu Laptop. I already have the test environment made, I just have not tested it out yet. Maybe I might try out the connection tonight after dinner just to make sure that it is working correctly and to see what problems show up (guaranteed to happen). The second test will make sure that I know how to find my way around the Chumby development environment and how to command the USB-Serial line correctly. That last part will probably be the kicker to getting a decent test sometime during the weekend. And oh yea, I have some work-work that I have to get done as well.
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