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Released: 3rd Party ROBOTC Driver Suite V1.4

A new release of the 3rd Party ROBOTC Driver Suite is out! Version 1.4 includes quite a number of changes and new drivers:
Newly added drivers:

  • Holit Data Systems Motor MUX
  • Mindsensors Motor MUX
  • Mindsensors Touch MUX
  • Philips PCF8574 driver for Mindsensors Magic Wand and PCF8574 prototyping board
  • HiTechnic IR Seeker 2 driver (HTIRS2), replaces HTDIR
  • Lots of extra examples for the HT Protoboard (all of the programs from the Experimenter’s Kit A)
  • Examples of using the HT ProtoBoard with the Sensor MUX

Changes:
common.h:

  • Added HTSMUXreadPowerStatus(tSensors link)
  • Added int round(float fl)
  • Added motor mux types and data structs

NXTCam-driver:

  • Added NXTCAMgetCenter() to calculate the center of a single blob
  • Added size filter to NXTCAMgetAverageCenter()

Others:

  • HTMC-driver.h: simplified relative heading calculations – Thanks Gus!
  • Replaced: HTDIR is now HTIRS2, API renamed, too
  • HTTMUX-test1.c: Fixed silly typo in comments
  • MSDIST-test1.c: Fixed a typo in the code

The "html" directory has been renamed to "Documentation" to make it more obvious that it’s where all the help files live. You can download it from the usual spot: [LINK].

About Xander

Xander Soldaat is a Software Engineer and former Infrastructure Architect. He loves building and programming robots. He recently had the opportunity to turn his robotics hobby into his profession and has started working for Robomatter, the makers of ROBOTC and Robot Virtual Words.