Bots and Making Motors Move

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Hey There…first off.

  1. Thank you. I could have not been able to configure things on my own without more finance issues.
  2. Outside of money woes, the BBAI-64 and the Motor Cape are working thanks to many people that made it come alive via u-boot, Linux, and some file mechanism programming. Thank you.
  3. I made a short on the topic and posted it to youtube.

Here:

If all goes well, which I need to get new motors obviously, I can get the L298 drivers on the Motor Cape to handle stoppage quickly and precisely. For now, that is all that is going on so far…

Seth

P.S. I will just keep up what works and then post at will. I have some drivers I wanted to test. I am not sure if it would be plug and play along with the source, i.e. as I have some circuitry to make still. Outside of that, if you think the Motor Cape and BBAI-64 do not work in cahoots, see the video.

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Hi. awesome project. Are you controlling the pins with the PRU’s? R5’s or directly from the linux environment?

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Nope. Linux for now. yep. Linux.

I have not configured enough about DTS to support findings in r5f cores or the PRU support.

I am a very slow learner. So, in time and with my findings, I shall keep trying.

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Also…

I am reading #sect-standard-properties in the DTS spec. now and again and always.

I keep finding a way back to reading more about it.

PRU. I know there is a package or packages available or was available during some time.

If anyone has any ideas for PRU, and of course, that they are willing to depart with currently, okay. I will listen.

The reason I reach out now about it is this idea:

  1. I tried install the tools PASM and/or CLPRU and/or pru-software-package a while back. It went horribly wrong and quickly.

Anyway, no issue. I am reading and understanding more now than before with DTS, i.e. at least u32.

I think u64 would be similar in some cases but I am at u32 for now and almost back to studying up!

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I am not completely sure I understood your las question, but If I understand correctly, this might be of some use. I am a noob to programing, but very passionate about it. Even though, I am horrible at it.

I found this post a few years back, and it helped me understand what the PRU’s are, and how the work. Programming the BeagleBone PRU-ICSS

From there, I graduated to the PRUCookbook. This has a ton of examples and ideas. PRU Cookbook

It does not have a section about the AI64, but it does about the AI. The AI64, shouldnt be that much different (at least in PRU terms), to the AI. Just different emory addresses when sharing between the PRU and ARM sides of the Board. For R5F, this is a whole other beast.

Hope this helps.

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Good enough for me.

I had some tools before disk failure. Lazy me just does not have the wherewithal to do it again.