GroG's blog

Damn .. from its first nervous steps a couple years ago, to now backflips !  ..
That's just ... wow .... speechless

Thanks @Humanoid for sharing the link !

WOOHOO ! .. 555 Tests a new record ..     And we've moved from A- to 

WORK-E's in the House ! 

Driven with remote joystick. My house is NOT wheelchair friendly - but I managed with a few bumps and small scrapes to drive WORK-E into my office.  The Joystick service values will need to be tweaked. WORK-E's script needs more dead-zone and stretched map values so its not so hard to control.

New overlay filter.  Thanks to astro for the idea and Mats for the direction :)

Still needs a little polish and maybe some thread safety.

The overlay filters looks like it will be loads of fun

I'm running the Test service which whips the auto-magic elves into looking in every nook & cranny for little bugs.  They found lots hiding in AdafruitMotorShield.  

I don't think its worked for years :P 

It relied on code being "injected" into MrlComm before being compiled and uploaded.  It also required the AdafruitMotorShield library to be included/compiled into the upload.

So how to get AdafruitMotorShield worky ?

As I'm trying to polish up Sabertooth, Joystick, and provide an interface in python you can do this

motor.attach(joystick.getAxis("y"))

I noticed MotorControl has getPowerLevel() & getPowerOutput()  

Dom wants to use A6 & A7 on the Nano

I'm about to add the 2 pins in the Arduino service pin definition for the Nano .. but what are the "real" addresses of these pins ?

They are not listed on any documentation .. I found this excellent description regarding these mysterious and silly pins on the Arduino forums..

Hi, when you write a post, you may want to reference a script in pyrobotlab. To reference a script, you just need to put the path to the script it in brackets.

For example :

if you have a python script in the pyrobotlab repo, you would write

[[ home/Ray.Edgley/wksr.py ]] and the following script would show up

[[home/Ray.Edgley/wksr.py]]

Are "things" other than Services attachable to other Services ?   I think so, but if this the case, it doesn't change the fact that the other "thing" should at some point be connected to another service.

Currently we understand attaching services this way :

Mouth <----attaches---> Ear

But I think this is valid too :