[dms-discuss] Project Idea: National Instruments & Linkbot

[David Ko]

Clarification: We are pretty sure we can get the Linkbot to play nice with
the myRio over I2C :) We _do_ have the Linkbot playing nice with an Arduino
over I2c, which is highly encouraging.

We are, however, a little short on documentation. I was thinking of sending
you guys our Arduino I2C code, since it is a working demonstration of the
protocol used to communicate between the two devices along with a brief
"readme". The Arduino code is very straightforward... Jordan: Do you think
that will be enough to get started?

- David


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Graham Ryland <gryland at barobo.com> wrote:

> Jordan,
>
> Quick update, we got the Linkbot to play nice with the myRIO over I2C, but
> we need help with writing the subvi.
>
> Is Saturday June 7th open for a Linkbot/myRIO Hackathon? What's a good
> time?
>
> Thanks,
> Graham
>
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Jordan Van Aalsburg <
> jordan.vanaalsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry I'm late to this discussion. This seems like it would make a great
>> hack-a-thon (code-a-rama) project. We have one scheduled for Saturday to
>> work on the inventory system, but if there is interest we could hold
>> another one in the following week(s).
>>
>> Graham: Could someone from Barobo attend the event (usually Saturday
>> mornings) and give a crash course on programming your platform? I think
>> that would help kick things off.
>>
>> -Jordan
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Graham Ryland <gryland at barobo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Steve!
>>>
>>> NI just sent us a myRIO with some software and cables. We're trying to
>>> show NI that the Linkbot is a valuable addition to the myRIO hardware
>>> ecosystem. There are two immediate hurdles that I can see. The first is
>>> data communication. The myRIO has a USB port that could potentially connect
>>> to the Linkbot, but more likely you'd just connect over I2C. Second is
>>> writing some kind of SubVI that exposes Linkbot functionality in LabView.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>> Graham
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Steve Edberg <edberg at edberg-online.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This looks pretty neat to me -
>>>>
>>>>    http://www.ni.com/myrio/what-is/
>>>>
>>>> - so I'm interested! Can you summarize what stuff they sent you? Do you
>>>> have any ideas about what you might want to do? What's the time frame
>>>> for
>>>> this? Am I asking too many questions? How soon is now? Perhaps a meeting
>>>> sometime at the space or other establishment might be in order...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 9, 2014 3:16 pm, Graham Ryland wrote:
>>>> > Dear Makers,
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > This is Graham from your friendly robot neighbor Barobo. I dropped by
>>>> > this afternoon and Emily suggest I email you about a cool project
>>>> idea.
>>>> > We're
>>>> > talking to National Instruments about a partnership and they sent us
>>>> some
>>>> > hardware called the myRIO to control our Linkbots with. I was
>>>> wondering
>>>> > if you're group was interested in helping us put together some demos
>>>> for
>>>> > how these could be used together that would wow NI. Let me know if
>>>> this is
>>>> >  something you're interested in.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> > Graham
>>>> > Graham Ryland
>>>> > CEO, Barobo, Inc.
>>>> > gryland at barobo.com 530-231-5178
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