RoboBasic for Bioloid

[srobot]

Is there any programming for the Bioloid that is like RoboBasic (RoboNova-1)?

I like the Bioloid for a lot of stuff, but for programming I like the RoboNova...

Thanks,
--Scotty

[Joe]

Buy me the full Bioloid kit, and I'll write something like RoboBasic for us to control it with. (I was the chief engineer at REAL Software — makers of REALbasic — for six years. This is a serious offer.)

Cheers,
— Joe

[srobot]

Buy me the full Bioloid kit, and I'll write something like RoboBasic for us to control it with. (I was the chief engineer at REAL Software — makers of REALbasic — for six years. This is a serious offer.)

...

If I had the money, I'd say go for it!

My dream robot programming software would have:

* A visual editor mode where you have a "EasyC"/"NXT-G" (Vex Robotics/Lego Mindstorms) type editor, so you can visually lay out a program.

* A code editor like "Note Pad"/"RoboBasic"/"RobotC" (http://www.robotc.org).

* A CAD model that you can load the program onto, before testing on the physical robot.

* A way to import a "visual file" into the "text editor". and a "text file" into the "visual editor".

I'm very surprised no company has done this yet.

Sadly I don't have the money, so it's still just a dream...

--Scotty

[Shonalen]

I use the BASCOM-AVR compiler to write a mixture of BASIC & assembler code for the Bioloid. It costs 79 euro and can be purchased at www.mcselec.com

Then I've used JustBasic, a free Windows Basic, from www.justbasic.com to write a PC application that communicates with the Bioloid to enable control of the motors, sound, sensors, etc. The application enables you to set up and test run poses from the PC, save them into PC files and write BASCOM files that compile into the Bioloid.

If you're interested let me know and I'll email you the code and a screen dump of the Windows application.

[srobot]

I use the BASCOM-AVR compiler to write a mixture of BASIC & assembler code for the Bioloid. It costs 79 euro and can be purchased at www.mcselec.com

Then I've used JustBasic, a free Windows Basic, from www.justbasic.com to write a PC application that communicates with the Bioloid to enable control of the motors, sound, sensors, etc. The application enables you to set up and test run poses from the PC, save them into PC files and write BASCOM files that compile into the Bioloid.

If you're interested let me know and I'll email you the code and a screen dump of the Windows application.

Will this work on a computer without the programs you linked to? I can download the free one, but I'm in the USA so I might have a hard time getting the paid software...

If you don't mind sending me your programs, that would be great!

Here is my email:

http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01jzo ... PB6BIcgLA=

--Scotty

[Shonalen]

You should have no problem purchasing BASCOM and downloading it. I didn't and I live in Australia!

You can use the JustBasic PC program of mine together with the HEX file I've compiled for the Humanoid build of the Robotis kit. But to actually program the robot in Basic you will need to buy the BASCOM compiler. My programs just supply a working kernel in BASCOM for the robot and a set of PC tools to make creating poses, testing motors, etc., easier than the tools supplied by Robotis.

Anyway I've emailed everything to you, so give it a try.