RM-501 programming

[bombermonk]

Yoho everyone,


For school i have to program this robot. And offcourse the school has nothing left from the robot except robot itself/drive unit/ cables and teaching box. No manual  nor software :s

Problem:
I have to put a webcam on the robot and do object recognition after he found the specific object he should move right above it and take it with his gripper and placing it to an specific location. I was thinking to program this in VC++ . I think i'll use the Centronics parallel port so if someone has info or even a sample program to control the robot through the parallel port.

thx in advance

[Botman]

Hi,

I have two RM-501's that my son gave me, and I'm still trying to figure them out.  Looks like the only programming commands they understand are BASIC.

I uploaded a copy of the Owner's Manual, if you want to download it.

http://mikegawley.com/RM-501.pdf

Good luck!

[bombermonk]

thx very much

still lots of thing i have to do and first thing is finding a stupid connector to connect the drive to the computer. :(