Software; Configuration Gui - QB Robotics SoftHand2 Research General Manual

6 Software

6.1 Configuration GUI

6.1.1 Installation
You can download our GUI from our
To install all the requirements for your specific operating system, please refer to
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Page 39)
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For Linux users: use
on your script and chose Properties -> Permissions -> Allow executing file as program,
leaves you with the exact same result as the command in terminal.
6.1.2 Usage
The qb SoftHand2 Research GUI (generally referred as qbtools) is a simple application to quickly test the
basic functionalities of the device through a personal computer. It may be also useful to diagnose —
together to our support team
The very first thing to do is to click
connected to the system, its serial port name is shown in the drop-down menu on the left.
If there are more than one serial port available, be sure to select the one connected to the qb
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SoftHand2 Research of interest.
If no serial port is found, check out the
When a serial port is found, the "Connect" button becomes available and by clicking on it you scan the
serial resource to find every qbrobotics device connected to the system. If there is at least one device
found, this operation enables all of the GUI features and it shows a green
button.
The button
Activate
current activation status is shown next to the
Remember to power the qb SoftHand2 Research before using this GUI.
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https://qbrobotics.com/product/qb-softclaw/
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mailto:support@qbrobotics.com
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on a the downloaded file and make it executable. Right click
chmod +x
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— troubles about hardware or software components.
"Scan Ports"
activates or deactivates the motor driver on the qb SoftHand2 Reserach; the
(download area).
at the top of the window. If a qb device is properly
installation
(see Page 39)
Active/Inactive button;
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the how-to section
and mounting
(see Page 13)
Connected
(see
steps.
label next to the