Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Oct.25 Follow-ups

3 Freshman EE labs (1 hour)
Today was the last of the 1 hour labs. Today two groups finished all exercises and had time to add in motors. An existing Lego "car" robot and mechanical arm robot has their motors plugged into the LMS with forte.  They first tried 1 motor and then had it go in circle with 1 motor forward and 1 motor backwards. The mechanical arm just rotated up /down.


Last week no one finished. Difference was this week started switching the LED on and off via touch and then adding in a second switch and SR FBs.  The last group had problems understanding/ remembering to take out the battery to turn off the LMS. Fortunately this has been changed to the push of a couple of key leading to the next item...


Buttons (and AVRctl):
  • Debouncing was changed to only use the value.
  • Decoding is only done now in the Button FB
  • Right+Left Keys now turn off the LMS
  • Code clean-up to match standards - so code review time again
Clock time differences:
The ecos numerator and denominator were changed to match the clock times for LMS found in both Lego and Lejos firmwares. New ecos is still being evaluated.



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