Thursday, October 19, 2006

OK, so I know what to make

I want to make an autonomous vehicle of some kind. Something that can navigate to a predetermined location and deal with what it finds along the way.

Now... what kind of vehicle?

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

The apps get more complex

Did I mention I like being able to Code in C on a microcontroller?

I do! and I have to add that so far the Luminary Micro driver library is making it easy for me. Only simple stuff for now, flash the onboard LED, increment a value on the OLED display and so on, but it's a start...

My first simple "hello world" app runs on the EK38S11.

I like the little OLED Display, need to work out how to drive the graphics on it, as it could be quite useful for a mobile platform.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

A new competition entry

At the moment I am still looking for a suitable project, but I have received from Luminary Micro (http://www.luminarymicro.com) one of their LM38S11 evaluation kits, and it seems pretty schmick.

Except that when I try to install the drivers for the USB interface, it barfs on Device B with "not suitable for this operating system version"

But seriously, this thing is an embedded ARM processor with plenty of memory and I/O. Maybe I should finally build that robot...