ROBOTC Driver Suite

A new release of the Driver Suite has been uploaded to Source Forge. Changes: A driver for the new HiTechnic Magnetic Sensor has been added, together with an example program for normal use and for with the Sensor MUX. Added a driver to send and receive messages to and from an RCX using the IR Link.  You can also control ...

I’ve uploaded a new release of the ROBOTC Driver Suite. Version 1.5 has a couple of nice changes: Newly added: Drivers for Dexter Industries dFlex, dPressure and temp probe Test program for Mindsensors Touch Sensor MUX with HiTechnic Sensor MUX Driver for additional timers in ROBOTC Documentation changes: All drivers sorted by manufacturer for easy lookup (thanks to John Hansen ...

Programming the NXT is nice.  However, sometimes you run into limits that you think shouldn’t be there.  This morning I hit one of those and scratched my head: “How to fix this?”.  Normally there are 4 timers at your disposal in ROBOTC (this also goes for NXC, as far as I am aware of).  I am not sure why we ...

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 ...

It’s been a bit quiet here.  Mind you, this isn’t because I’ve been slacking.  Far from it, in fact.  I’ve been working on a new version of the driver suite with a number of new drivers and some other assorted goodies.  Some new devices that will be supported by the next version are: Mindsensors Motor MUX (no product page yet) ...

Yet another new version (1.3) of the ROBOTC driver suite awaits your download from the usual source. Changes for this version include: New additions: Codatex RFID sensor driver + 2 test programs (thanks Sylvain + Oliver) Lego Temp sensor + 2 test programs (thanks Sylvain) Firgelli Linear Actuator + test program Mindsensors Power Meter + test program Fixes: drivers/common.h: Added ...

Mindsensors was kind of enough to send me one of their prototype sensors, the Power Meter, to play with.  It’s a sensor that allows you to measure, among other things, the current and voltage of anything you care to connect to it (within limits, of course).  The first thing that came to mind was building something that would log the ...

A new version (1.2) of the ROBOTC driver suite awaits your download from the usual source. Lots of internal changes in this version.  I’ve been working on removing all the work-arounds that were necessary for ROBOTC pre-2.0 when there was no unsigned byte type.  Only ROBOTC 2.00 or higher is supported by this version.  The upgrade is free, so there ...

A new version (1.1) of the ROBOTC driver suite awaits your download from the usual source. Not as many changes in this release as with the previous one. Changes include: Added support for the Mindsensors Servo controller, up to 8 servos per controller. Added a new function to get the raw uncalibrated AD values from the sensors in the Mindsensors ...

After a long time between releases, I am proud to present to you the latest version of the ROBOTC Driver Suite. The biggest new addition to this version is support for the new HiTechnic SMUX sensor. Adding support for this new sensor involved modifying almost every single driver for the HiTechnic sensors to add the ability to poll the sensors ...