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I just finished assembly of a A4WD 1. When I hook 9VDC to the BotBoard II, the green pwr LED glows and the A,B,C LEDs flash off and on about once a second, along with a click from the peizo speaker. It does this with all other connections removed. Is this correct operation? I have checked both the polarity and voltage and both are correct. Pressing the reset button momentarily stops the flashing and the clicks.The processor is a BASIC Atom Pro 28 Pin.

I hooked up a serial>USB cable and ran Basic Micro Studio 2.0.0.14 and it reports: 'BAP 28 found on COM7'. I clicked 'Program' and get this error: 'A basic ATOMPro processor must be connected for automatic detection'. But I don't think that is part of the problem, at least at the moment. I'm using a Sabrent USB to serial adapter with a FTI chipset. The drivers are loaded in my laptop, a Asus K601 running W7 64bit. The PC seems to find the BotBoard and it stops the flashing and clicking for a second or two.

Any ideas? I also included a photo. The only change to the board was removing the servo power VS VL jumper as I'm powering the servos from a 6VDC source.

The clicking and blinking is a result of the test program on the Atom Pro chip. You must program it for your robot. To program the chip click program . Any problems are probably due to the USB to serial cable. Try this page for ideas.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4702

If it's a FTDI cable go into the VCP driver and change latency to minimum. Hope this helps...

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Thanks, that does help quite a bit. I hadn't seen where that was the default mode of the BASIC Atom Pro.
I also had my laptop running off batteries, which may have been a communication factor. I also missed the 'F1' button for help in the Basic Micro Studio program and that helped me with the setup.

But after a few adjustments, I managed to load the first.bas program and all is well. Next I tried to run the 4WD1TST2.BAS program and the motor controller was unresponsive. A bit of research at the Demension Engineering site and I used their dip switch configurator and was able to perform the motor tests. All OK.

Next is hooking up the Sharp sensors, but I'm learning. Thanks again.

Way cool! I'm glad you got it going!

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Fully operational now with sensors attached, running 4WD1AUTO.BAS. Now I have to learn a bit more about programming.

That bit of code was a blast to watch James work on. Lots of room for code changes in the behavior.

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