STEP 10:
optional sensor alignment rings can be fitted to help maintain sensor alignment when the robot
bumps into something. These rings may reduce the sensitivity of the sensors slightly but can improve
reliability.
Installing the software
This robot can be programmed using a free
I
ntegrated
D
evelopment
E
nvironments (IDE) from the internet.
Depending on your programming skills there are several choices. Many advanced programmers would
choose an IDE such as AVR Studio and use the ISP socket to program this robot.
To make this robot as easy as possible to program we have chosen to make it compatible with the Arduino
IDE and have included a USB interface. This manual assumes that the Arduino IDE (version 18 or later) is
being used. Although the robot comes with the Arduino bootloader and sample software already installed you
will need the Arduino IDE for loading the diagnostic software and writing your own code.
At the time this manual was written the Arduino IDE was available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux 32bit. It
can be downloaded from here:
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
Once you have the Arduino IDE installed on your computer you can then open the program
“Mr_Tidy_Sample_Code.pde” which is supplied with the robot or can be downloaded from our website at
http://arexx.com.cn/en/DownList.asp
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