First Steps; Putting The Controller Into Operation; Editing A Program - qfix crash-bobby Instructions Manual

Chapter 4

First steps

This chapter will describe how to put the qfix controller into operation, how to edit and to
compile a program and how to transfer it from the PC into the controller.

4.1 Putting the controller into operation

In order to put the controller into operation, you simply need to connect the battery. The
battery connection socket is protected against polarity reversal. After inserting the plug,
the red Power LED must immediately light up. If it does not light up, please immediately
remove the plug and check the connection.
In order to load a program from the PC into the controller, the download cable must be
plugged into the parallel port (printer connection, LPT1) of the PC and the red plug must
be connected to the larger red socket of the controller board.

4.2 Editing a program

Note: In order to load a demo program into the editor you should have copied the software
directory onto your hard disk as described in section 3.4.
Please start the programming environment "Programmers Notepad" (e.g. in Start WinAVR
Programmers Notepad) and open via the menu File Open e.g. the qfix demo file
.
ledTest.cc
The first time the Programmers Notepad is started, it opens a lot of unnecessary windows:
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