neilrob
Hi my name is Neil. I am home-educating my son and he is very interested in robots. I have very little electronics experience (I am a software engineer, not a hardware one, yet...).
I realize it probably goes against the current approach, but is there any way to get a lower level API to the equipment than the .NET assembly and SDK? The reason is quite simple, my company produces a cross-platform programming language and I would like to investigate adding a set of components to our language (similar probably to what is in the .NET stuff).
We do not work with .NET (not surprising for a cross-platform language), so the options are limited to the HTTP interface (which I haven't ruled out), or something that I can talk to using a non-managed code DLL (in other words a traditional DLL without all the COM/.NET stuff in it), even if I may have to write it - since I would want it to work as .so on Linux.
I don't mind doing the work, and am happy to promote the results to others who may be interested (especially in the Linux community). I am specifically not looking for extensive hand-holding here, just some source of information I can peruse if it is even available.
Any information will be gratefully received.
Ciao, Neil
Firstly, welcome.
The SDK works in C# too, I have no experience with .net and little with C# myself but it may be worth looking at it, I'm sure you'll know pretty quickly if it's suitable or not.
There is (or was) the EZ-Open Bot which may be of use to you.
There have been some forum posts regarding Python too, which may be of some use, do a forum search and it should show up.
Although, you can also Telnet in to ARC and run script commands too, however does need ARC running and connected to the EZ-B which may not be suitable for your requirements (it may be though).
Hope that's of some use to you.
There is EZ-OpenBot for Linux, Raspberry Pi: http://code.google.com/p/ez-openbot/
Additionally, the EZ-SDK is COM enabled - and can be used with C++ in both MFC and CLR. In visual studio, add a CLR Visual C++ project and you can use the EZ-SDK