Video of end Product

Here's a short video of one of my local builder compatriots Travis and his droid at Lego Land here in Kansas City.  The hope is one day my droid can look and sound as good and of course the kid coing up toward the end makes it all worth while.

MarcDuino Part 2

So I've assembled and flashed the HP Controller code to the Slave MarcDuino board.  This went much smoother than the Master board even with changing laptops and having to re-install AVRDude, though Burn-O-Mat still doesn't have the ATMega328p as a valid option so back to the CLI commands and I got my 1 sec blinking red LED.  This code flash is mostly just to test the assembly of the board.  The code will need updating to work with the Teeces displays.

/opt/local/bin/avrdude -C /opt/local/etc/avrdude.conf -p m328p -P usb -c usbtiny -U efuse:r:./efuse.hex:i -U hfuse:r:./hfuse.hex:i -U lfuse:r:./lfuse.hex:i


/opt/local/bin/avrdude -C /opt/local/etc/avrdude.conf -p m328p -P usb -c usbtiny -u -U efuse:w:0x07:m -U hfuse:w:0xDF:m -U lfuse:w:0xFF:m

/opt/local/bin/avrdude -C /opt/local/etc/avrdude.conf -p m328p -P usb -c usbtiny -U efuse:v:0x07:m -U hfuse:v:0xDF:m -U lfuse:v:0xFF:m


/opt/local/bin/avrdude -C /opt/local/etc/avrdude.conf -p m328p -p m328p -P usb -c usbtiny -U flash:w:/<src>/HPController_v1.2.hex:a

Teeces Annoucement

So seeing as there is apparently no date in sight on when a JEDI display will be available, I've committed myself to using a Teeces display setup.  My fellow builders are joyed that someone took up that challenge.

So far my research is pointing at 2 approaches.  I can either drive the displays directly from the MarcDuino with major code updates or I can use a Arduino Micro to drive the display and just code the MarcDuino to send the Arduino Micro jawa commands.  I'll probably attempt both at some point.

Teeces Lighting Info:
http://astromech.net/droidwiki/index.php?title=Teeces_V3_Dome_Lighting_System

Orders Orders Part 2

Ok so some orders have arrived over the last couple days:

MarcDuino PCB and components which I've assembled and installed the HP Controller code and that seems fine.  This code will probably be updated later for the Teeces setup.

Teeces Components are here as well except for the IC's which are enroute from China.  Still waiting on Osh Park to ship the Teeces PCBs.

Alu Dome topper and Reson dome bumps arrived.

Droid Con 2011 DVDs are in and I've watched some of Disc 1 and 2 but there are spots on both that aren't viewable so it skips occasionally.

Wife's Cake and we'll eating that later today  YAY!