Today we held a second public demonstration. We had originally intended to demo both the Pleos and the Scribblers, but unfortunately there were few people around to demo to. That said, the Pleo demonstration seemed successful – people were interested in the little dinosaurs and curious about how they worked. For the short time I was there, I observed two… Read more →
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C++ Pleo Serial Port Communication
I believe I was able to issue a command to Pleo via serial port last night in C++. However, I was only able to do a single command before he became unresponsive and needed to be restarted. He also ran out of batteries, so I was unable to recreate my results. I also still need to figure out how to… Read more →
Pleo Scripting
Progress: Writing Pleo “skits” using GUI program internet dating in beijing Myskit Writing Pleo scripts and compiling them in Pawn without a GUI program Controlling Pleo via serial port and Putty Challenges: Unreliable serial port communications Limited scripting control Next steps: Investigate C++ serial port interface and the LifeOS embedded operating system on Pleo Scripting: I was able to… Read more →
Learning Pleo and His Tools
I have spent quite a bit of time on the Georgia Tech class website that used Pleos, and have tried to follow the instructions there the best I can. The first change I had to make was reformat my computer and install Windows 7 32 bit. I was previously using the 64 bit version, but read that that might cause… Read more →