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Doh!! :o It's "PresentHeading()" not "GetHeading()". Very sorry and embarrassed. When I put the guide together it was a marathon run putting that much material together quickly and I didn't actually test what I was writing. Note that PresentHeading() and GetDegrees() does exactly...

darrshar, Thanks for the feedback. That's kind of strange that the two versions show different names for the port. I don't much understand how things work at the driver level here. One thing I do notice when working myself is Arduino often throws the "Serial port already in use" error. I g...

William, That's a really good suggestion. I never considered adding the settings in the comments at the top. Very good idea. Most Arduino sketches can be loaded onto various boards, so I guess they just assume you'll select the correct board but yea, this would be helpful especially for Ringo. BTW, ...

cbw, I just realized I made a big mistake in the guide. It's "PresentHeading()" not "GetHeading()". I put "getheading" into the guide then when making final edits to the base code before releasing, I changed it to "PresentHeading()" because I though thought th...

Albin, You may still be okay. We suggest installing the driver first because some computers (especially Windows) tends to associate the programmer with the wrong driver. Go ahead and install the correct driver, then connect the programmer. If it is happy, you'll see a new entry appear in the Arduino...

Quinten, You want to leave all the files in place. It sounds as if there's a syntax error someplace. I don't think Arduino forces you to "define" a function before using it (this is a rule in C but I think Arduino overlooks this). Check that you didn't miss a semicolon in your new function...

Quinten- Ringo initializes his serial speed at 57600 baud. I realized after your post that this is not called out in the guide. I'll have to add that. If you select at the bottom of the Arduino Serial Monitor - bottom right, you can select a new baud rate. Select 57600 and you'll get clean data. 960...

lol. I guess I should have actually tested that code. :? I was writing the manual in a big hurry and described the functions as I understood them - I obviously misunderstood that one. So RotateSimple drives the motors at whatever speed you've set and stops them when the prescribed rotation has been ...

There may be something happening with a data type conversion. Arduino is kind of strange about that. I wonder if your 1.06 is causing something unexpected to happen together with the value you pass for "left motor"? You shouldn't need to edit anything inside MoveWithOptions - this function...

cbw- The attack behavior basically works like this: 1) It watches the accelerometer for any movement above a low threshold. 2) Once triggered, the processor starts reading out the data from the accerometer buffer and watches for that to indicate the bug has come to a stop. 3) It then looks over the ...