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by Caesar517
Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:34 pm
Forum: UNIX and Linux Discussion Forum
Topic: Robotic Arm Control via Embedded System MCU
Replies: 2
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Re: Robotic Arm Control via Embedded System MCU

Thanks for pointing me there, although I'm not sure how much it would have helped (the example doesn't explain what the code is trying to do ). I ran a hexdump from /dev/hidraw0 and reverse engineered the packet structure. Then a quick C program to parse and print the data. It didn't take me long. H...
by Caesar517
Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:16 am
Forum: UNIX and Linux Discussion Forum
Topic: Robotic Arm Control via Embedded System MCU
Replies: 2
Views: 17603

Robotic Arm Control via Embedded System MCU

Hey guys, I'm working on a project with a group of other engineers to control a robotic arm with the space navigator, embedded-system style. I'm responsible for turning the HID stream into PWM or TTL serial using an MCU running bare metal (no OS). I just downloaded the spacenav driver (http://spacen...