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- June 24 2013, 13:58 PM
- Forum: Spaceware Software
- Topic: New run of orbshields
- Replies: 237
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Re: New run of orbshields
[quote="Tehrasha"] AFAIK, the 5000A is simply a rebranded 4000. It would use the SpaceBall4000 (Spaceball) setting on the Orbotron9000 rather than the SpaceBall5000 (Magellan) setting.[/quote] That makes more sense than a 5000 w/ backwards compatible firmware :D Is there any difference in the 5000/M...
- June 24 2013, 12:14 PM
- Forum: Spaceware Software
- Topic: New run of orbshields
- Replies: 237
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Re: New run of orbshields
[quote="VDX"]... I've changed the windows setting to "accept unsigned driers", but my Win7 64Bit told me, that it can't do anything with this sort of *.inf file :-/ [/quote] I'm on Win8 64-bit. The orbotron.inf file just uses the arduino drivers, so if you installed the arduino IDE (you do have to d...
- June 24 2013, 10:39 AM
- Forum: Spaceware Software
- Topic: New run of orbshields
- Replies: 237
- Views: 295241
Re: New run of orbshields
[quote="vputz"]VDX had some problems installing the driver on Win7, so I'm a little distressed about that as it should "just work"[/quote] What problems did he have? Vista/Win7/Win8 are a bit fussy about unsigned drivers so you have to reboot into the windows bootup menu and allow unsigned drivers t...
- June 12 2013, 21:28 PM
- Forum: Spaceware Software
- Topic: New run of orbshields
- Replies: 237
- Views: 295241
Re: New run of orbshields
"The USB shield uses a FTDI USB to UART chip. The RFduino has a bootloader which loads code over UART. The USB shield does not have an ARM programmer. If an ARM programmer is used to try and program the RFduino, it will erase the bootloader." Asked them about their USB shield. So it looks like there...
- June 12 2013, 13:04 PM
- Forum: Spaceware Software
- Topic: New run of orbshields
- Replies: 237
- Views: 295241
Re: New run of orbshields
[quote="vputz"] If someone came out with a solid Cortex M0 SOC with both USB and BT, I'd be ecstatic.[/quote] How about an M3? Broadcom BCM20732 http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s767776 No info on pricing anywhere yet. There are supposedly eval kits available, but I can't find any page w...
- June 12 2013, 9:33 AM
- Forum: Spaceware Software
- Topic: New run of orbshields
- Replies: 237
- Views: 295241
Re: New run of orbshields
[quote="vputz"]doesn't seem to do USB directly (I was hoping it would do BT and USB), so I'm actually curious how they're going to program it from the Arduino environment[/quote] They require you to use a USB shield for programming. If you look at the board, it's fairly complicated so I'd bet it imp...
- June 11 2013, 20:11 PM
- Forum: Spaceware Software
- Topic: New run of orbshields
- Replies: 237
- Views: 295241
rfduino config files
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Those files have not been released yet. Once we do release them, they will not be part of the official Arduino release. It will be an add-on to the release.
- June 11 2013, 16:05 PM
- Forum: Spaceware Software
- Topic: New run of orbshields
- Replies: 237
- Views: 295241
Re: New run of orbshields
[quote="vputz"] That's what I'm thinking too. But then there's the problem of how to remap them reliably so that a game could use them[/quote] When a bluetooth device shows up in Windows, doesn't it stay at the same "ID"? If so, the game should be able to detect the ID and map properly. You might ha...
- June 11 2013, 14:40 PM
- Forum: Spaceware Software
- Topic: New run of orbshields
- Replies: 237
- Views: 295241
Re: New run of orbshields
[quote="vputz"] playing with an ARM-based bluetooth SOC (the heart of the rfduino) to see if I can learn how to make it work with the Arduino environment ...can't work out how to make them appear as one controller if I have multiple BT devices.[/quote] Doubt you can make multiple BT devices show up ...
- June 10 2013, 18:25 PM
- Forum: Spaceware Software
- Topic: New run of orbshields
- Replies: 237
- Views: 295241
works on Arduino 1.5.x!
Ha! Did I mention I'm stubborn? :lol: The issue was staring me in the face all this time. Arduino 1.5 actually needs an upload.tool parameter or it'd use the BasicUploader which of course doesn't do anything any more so it face plants :? I submitted a bug in the arduino github project too...hopefull...
- June 10 2013, 17:19 PM
- Forum: Spaceware Software
- Topic: New run of orbshields
- Replies: 237
- Views: 295241
Re: New run of orbshields
So FYI, I did install Arduino 1.0.5 (did I ever say I'm stubborn about trying the latest? :D) Installed fine...basicjoystick and gaindemo work fine. Only difference in following directions is I didn't have a c:\users\arduino\libraries directory. Instead, I installed the libraries\orbotron folder int...
- May 31 2013, 9:48 AM
- Forum: Spaceware Software
- Topic: New run of orbshields
- Replies: 237
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using Arduino 1.5.2beta
Did I ever tell you I'm not great at following directions? :? I installed the latest Arduino 1.5.2 nightly so I could try the Arduino Due (ARM based Arduino). They've apparently moved thing around quite a bit, so under hardware/arduino, there are now different architectures. To get the basicjoystick...
- May 30 2013, 7:57 AM
- Forum: Spaceware Software
- Topic: New run of orbshields
- Replies: 237
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some miscellaneous arduino noob stuff
For folks who haven't done it before...the orbotron 9000 github page (https://github.com/thingotron/orbotron_9000) says install the arduino IDE, but doesn't specify that under Tools/Board in the menu, you have to specify ATMega2560; if you don't do this, it'll say "Serial1 not defined in scope". You...
- May 28 2013, 21:41 PM
- Forum: Spaceware Software
- Topic: New run of orbshields
- Replies: 237
- Views: 295241
Re: New run of orbshields
[quote="vputz"] I'm also using a no-clean flux pen, which probably isn't doing a particularly good job... I've tried fixing a bridge with flux and dragging, and that succeeded in bridging almost an entire side of the chip.[/quote] For this, you really need to use a conical solder tip for it to be al...
- May 25 2013, 19:29 PM
- Forum: Spaceware Software
- Topic: New run of orbshields
- Replies: 237
- Views: 295241
Re: New run of orbshields
[quote="vputz"]Each one required substantial rework--STILL bridges on the 32u4 (!) and lots of problems with that old USB connector[/quote] Are you using a different kind of solder paste than what Sparkfun used? I'm wondering if yours has less flux? Or are you using too low a temp w/ your reflow pla...