Arduino-FirebirdV (AtMega 2560)

Extending Arduino IDE for FirebirdV robot by Nex-Robotics.

Note1: Current instructions are for Windows OS. Will be adding later for linux but others are free to try. Will not be that different from Windows..

Note2: Currently, this Arduino extension can only be used for creating the hex files. Directly uploading to FirebirdV is NOT implemented.

1. Initial environment setup

Install AVR-GCC from here.
Install latest Arduino IDE from here.

2. Setting up the Arduino IDE

Open the Arduino IDE and go to Tools->Boards. You will see a board for AtMega 2560. However, this board is set at F_CPU (cpu frequency) of 16MHz but the frequency of mega chip on Firebird robot is set to 14.7456MHz. Thus we need to create a new board configuration for the required frequencey.
The new board configuration is required to be appended to boards.text file which can found here (by default): C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\ or <INSTALLED_FOLDER>\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\.
Open the boards.txt file in Admin mode using your favourite text editor and add this to the file. Save it then.:

firebird.name=Firebird V Mega 2560 Robot

firebird.vid.0=0x2341
firebird.pid.0=0x0010
firebird.vid.1=0x2341
firebird.pid.1=0x0042
firebird.vid.2=0x2A03
firebird.pid.2=0x0010
firebird.vid.3=0x2A03
firebird.pid.3=0x0042
firebird.vid.4=0x2341
firebird.pid.4=0x0210
firebird.vid.5=0x2341
firebird.pid.5=0x0242

firebird.upload.tool=avrdude
firebird.upload.maximum_data_size=8192

firebird.bootloader.tool=avrdude
firebird.bootloader.low_fuses=0xFF
firebird.bootloader.unlock_bits=0x3F
firebird.bootloader.lock_bits=0x0F

firebird.build.f_cpu=14745600L

firebird.build.core=arduino
firebird.build.variant=mega
# default board may be overridden by the cpu menu
firebird.build.board=AVR_MEGA2560

## Arduino/Genuino Mega w/ ATmega2560
## -------------------------
firebird.menu.cpu.atmega2560=ATmega2560 (Mega 2560)

firebird.menu.cpu.atmega2560.upload.protocol=wiring
firebird.menu.cpu.atmega2560.upload.maximum_size=253952
firebird.menu.cpu.atmega2560.upload.speed=115200

firebird.menu.cpu.atmega2560.bootloader.high_fuses=0xD8
firebird.menu.cpu.atmega2560.bootloader.extended_fuses=0xFD
firebird.menu.cpu.atmega2560.bootloader.file=stk500v2/stk500boot_v2_mega2560.hex

firebird.menu.cpu.atmega2560.build.mcu=atmega2560
firebird.menu.cpu.atmega2560.build.board=AVR_MEGA2560

That's it! Close the IDE and open it again. You will be able to select your new board with name as Firebird V Mega 2560 Robot. You will be able to see the same as shown below:

3. Custom Arduino Libraries for Firebird V

Put the folder FirebirdV/* found here into your C:\Users\<UNAME>\Documents\Arduino\libraries\ folder. Close the IDE and open it again to see the examples under FirebirdV.

4. Using the Arduino IDE Serial terminal.

Connect the USB cable to Firebird V robot and PC.
Check the Tools->Port and check when the appropriate port occurs.
Since the USB port of Firebird is connected to the UART2 of AtMega chip, use Serial2.begin and other functions for communication. For better understanding, see the examples.

License

tushar-semwal/Arduino-FirebirdV

ErrorLooks like something went wrong!

About

Topics

Resources

License

Uh oh!

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

Packages 0

Uh oh!

Languages

Error
Looks like something went wrong!

Packages