Possibly the future in motion controllers?

[tronicgr]

http://www.rowley.co.uk/arm/index.htm

Its interesting... Their commercial license is costs a fortune too ($1500)...
And $150 for their personal license is about the same I paid for a commercial license for my AVR IDE compiler!

On the other hand, I don't think everyone can afford $150 of software just to be able to change source code and compile, unless they know what they are doing. Its definitely not for beginner x-sim users, too deep for a dive!!!

The most open-source tool-chain compilers for arm are still buggy, a hell to go through to set them up, and guess what... Mostly for linux...
The one I downloaded (but didn't attempted to try yet), the Yagarto is eclipse based like TrueStudio, but a little messy to deploy. If I need to expand the code over 32kb, then this is the one I'll give a try.

I started programming in C when I was 14 on a casio portable computer... before I even got PC. I don't think that there is so much differences between C and C++. The same limited functions of the arm hardware can be accessed despite what compiler you are using. Maybe you can get it a little more efficient codewise but there is not much you can gain. And most of the existing peripheral libraries for STM32 devices is for plain C after all!!

Thanos

[Roadster2]

Hi Thanos. Any update on possible progress on getting these boards working with X-Sim ?

[sirnoname]

My last update was that X-Sim supports now lan USO output with TCP and UDP.
UDP is the part we use in simulators because it is faster than TCP with less delay.

[tronicgr]

It's true. UDP could be better in terms of packet size and speed compared to simple serial.

[Roadster2]

My last update was that X-Sim supports now lan USO output with TCP and UDP.
UDP is the part we use in simulators because it is faster than TCP with less delay.

Sorry for my ignorance; so this means that we can use an Open107V ARM Cortex-M3 USB Board, or even a cheaper version of it, instead of Thanos' AMC 1.6 board or the Pololu ? I'm looking to drive four 12V 180W motor/gearbox units so at the moment I'm assuming two of the ARM controller boards and two Dual Motor Driver boards that Thanos kindly gave a link to.

I would appreciate any advice.
Thanks

[tronicgr]

That's the purpose of this. But its not near in presentable state for the moment. I do this in my free time (when I get some).

Thanos

[Roadster2]

That's the purpose of this. But its not near in presentable state for the moment. I do this in my free time (when I get some).
Thanos

Hi Thanos. Thanks. It was an update on your progress that I was after. I appreciate that you do this in your 'spare' time and I'm sure that there are many members on here who appreciate what you do.

I'm starting to accumulate all of the other hardware and electronic bits required so I'll keep an eye on here for any new updates.

One question; do you think it would be safe to order a couple of the Dual Motor Driver boards (from China) or better to wait until you've done a bit more ?

Thanks

[tronicgr]

These china motor drivers are a cheap alternative to my favorite pololu high power motor drivers. They are not the same but they feature many safety options missing from the pololu boards.

It's up to you to choose what you need for the motors you have. There where endless discussions about this in other thread so its pointless to analyse it here.


Thanos

[danielDK]

Hi Guys

I've skimmed through this thread - and i thought i would make you aware of the 84mhz arm-based ardunio:
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardDue

cheers
Daniel

[futuresims]

Hi Thanos,
I am seeing this thread for the first time.

How far along is this project?

Is this project different from the NEW AMC18USB board?

Thanks Thanos.