MR-C3024 Memory

[Humanoido]

Is there an easy way to determine the amount of remaining free memory after loading in a template?

Apparently RoboBasic has no PRINT MEM function that early Basic languages had. RoboBasic does have a way to PEEK the data from the MR-C3024 RAM and ROMPEEK to read data from the controller's external EEPROM RAM. Since the ATMEL ATMEGA has been around for some time, is there a routine to determine remaining memory after a program is loaded in? or how to do it?

Humanoido

[Gman]

Load your program to the Robonova

In RoboBasic select 'Controller' --> 'Controller Information'

A small window will show information including how much memory your program occupies.

Hope this helps

[Humanoido]

Thanks Gman! That's very helpful, and interesting. My modded template is only 18.6K and with 64K total memory initially available, RN could hold 18 similar sized templates! That's a lot of code! This template is 1894 lines of code, so 18 tempates would equate to about 34,000 lines of total code. Not bad!

BTW, integer basic is not bad. In the 70s, there was a Tiny Basic by Tom Pittman which was very popular on microcomputers with the RCACDP1802MPU. It ran very efficient and was a compact code. There were numerous articles and tutorials on creating various mathematical functions, including floating point. Many of those documents are still posted on the web, including the original tutorial for Tiny Basic.

Don't worry too much though, about reinventing the wheel, so to speak. Thousands of years ago, the Chinese experimented with gunpowder and made black powder rockets. While on tour at the National Palace Museum in the Republic of China, I saw an exact replica model of that original rocket. Surprising, it looked almost identical to the twin solid rocket boosters on NASAs Space Shuttle which are comprised of, you guessed it, black powder.

Thanks again, Gman.

Humanoido

[TheGuru]

My modded template is only 18.6K and with 64K total memory initially available, RN could hold 18 similar sized templates! That's a lot of code! This template is 1894 lines of code, so 18 tempates would equate to about 34,000 lines of total code. Not bad!

Humanoido, not one to dampen your enthusiasm but I have to take issue with your maths here. If you've found a way to cram 335K(18*18.6k) into 64K of space I'd like to know how you'd do it?

The actual approximate figures are 3.4x your current template and just over 6500 code lines.

Mark

[Humanoido]

Oops, this kind of math only works at 4 am when the brain is half asleep, but really, only 6,500 lines of code available - that's a real damper! I had alotted 10,000 for motion control, 15,000 for AI, and 5,000 for sensor management. What will I do now? How many more RN's will I need to link together?! 8O ... thnxs for the correction! Humanoido

[Humanoido]

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[DirtyRoboto]

Sorry, My bad!