Orders, orders, orders

Big day for ordering.  Ordered:
(1) 300mm styrene dome  (hopefully this goes through before all the domes are gone seeing as I echecked the payment and it take 3-5 days to process)
(4) HP lights (one extra for spare)
(1) DroidConn 2011 DVD set
(1) Slave MarcDuino board and components
(1) Cake, oh wait that's for my Wife not my R2.  LOL

I'm really excited about the dome order.  I've got the brains ready (see Marcduino board) all ready to put into the actual head.  Not looking forward to all the sanding though to get the 2 layers to fit together right.  :(

Read back over the Marcduino board documentation again and realized I needed to order the slave board for the HP lights.

I think something moved?!!!

So for a small donation of $14.11 at the local MicroCenter I was able to obtain a Parallax Standard (Futaba) servo.  Thanks to this little gizmo I was able to successfully test all 10 servo connections respond to the R2 Touch app.  The servo only turns about a 1/4 turn and prsessing close twice makes it spin just that little bit more.  I suspect this is just the min/max settings that the Marvelous Marc set as default in the code.  I can always adjust this "throw" later once I have a dome and panels all cut out and hinged,  and the servos mounted.

WiFly Connected

It LIVES!

Ok so it's not that dramatic but I finally got the WiFly setup and connected to the MarcDuino and my iPad connected to them. feels like a big achievement but only because my Mac was being uncooperative.

Master MarcDuino default program loaded

I finally got my MarcDuino Master Controller Board firmware loaded to the board.  The AVR Burn-O-MAT refused to read the full avrdude.conf file to see the ATmega328p IC to program it.  I had to finally use the nice GUIs to build the avrdude CLI command strings and run them manually after editing the IC model approbriately.   What a mess that was but as you can see my clocking LED blinks 1/s as expected after the load completed.

As always, for more information on the MarcDuino or its code, go look at the its master's page @ curiousmarc.com