White Box PC-Bot 914 Quick Start Manual

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Page 2 Liability In no event will White Box Robotics, Inc. or Frontline Robotics, Inc. be liable for any damage, including loss of data or profits, cost of cover, or other incidental, consequential or indirect damages arising from the installation maintenance, use, performance, failure or interruption of White Box Robotics, Inc.
Page 3: Unpacking The Robot
Unpacking the Robot The following image shows how the PC-BOT should have arrived in the shipping box. STEP 1 – Un-packing the robot Remove the peripheral equipment wrapped in bubble wrap. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 5 The following image shows where the handles are located, you’ll have to feel for them when the robot is in the box. There are two handles front and back. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 6: Setting-Up The Robot
Now that the robot is out of the box, you should plug the charger in to charge the batteries. The charger connector is found behind the left rear vent door on the back of the robot. Flip the door open as shown in the above picture. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 7 If the battery level goes below 11.2V the robot will auto-shutdown. Either while you are running the robot, and especially when you are finished with it for the day, PLEASE REMEMBER TO RE- CHARGE THE BATTERIES. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 8 The head and front/back torso body panels are attached with ball studs and sockets. This allows for easy removal of the panels without tools. Gently remove the head by grabbing under the separation (between the head and torso plastics) and pulling straight up. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 9 You can use your thumbs to leaver while pulling on the body panels with your finger tips. Both body panels are removed in the same way. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 10 Charger jack on the left side, and on the right side the back panel of the Mini-ITX. Plug the monitor, keyboard and mouse into the Mini-ITX back panel in order to setup your robot, like the network etc. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 11 PC again to auto-shutdown before the power is cut (45 seconds later) and the batteries are protected from total discharge. This is the same as the user pushing the PC ON switch on the CPU and shutting down the computer. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 12 NOTE: If the robot is sitting on a desk, it might be advisable to turn the M3 Switch OFF so that the robot cannot drive off the table. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 13 You should connect the Wireless device to the USB board mounted on the head if this is not already done. In this location the head can still be placed back on the robot and not interfere with the Wireless USB Network Adapter or its antennae. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 14 Support Documents – (Quick Start Guides, Basic Unit Computer Installation, Plastics Assembly, etc.) http://www.whiteboxrobotics.com/2006/PCBOTs/support.html Technical Specifications Wiring and Power: http://www.whiteboxrobotics.com/2006/PCBOTs/pdf/PC-Bot_Tech_Spec- WiringPowerv1.1.pdf I/O Board Block Diagram: http://www.whiteboxrobotics.com/2006/PCBOTs/pdf/PC- Bot_Tech_Spec-IOBoardBlockDiagramv1.1.pdf Infra-red Sensors: http://www.whiteboxrobotics.com/2006/PCBOTs/pdf/PC-Bot_Tech_Spec-Infra- redSensorsv1.1.pdf © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 15 This handbook is intended to introduce the basics of using Visual Studio Express as development software for the White Box Robotics 914 PC-BOT and is not meant to replace the actual Visual Studio manuals. You will still need to go through the tutorials and read the documentation listed on the Microsoft Visual Studio Express webpage: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/...
Page 16 C# so this is what the guide will use. Step 2 Download and install the ‘Additional components’ listed further down the webpage for the tool you selected. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 17 When the installation is finished you will find a desktop icon and Start – Programs group has been created. These are shortcuts to the sample software projects that were created in Visual Studio. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 18 Roam – Used to demonstrate the automatic avoid movement using the IR sensors. The Samples folder has the .EXE applications created after building the Visual Studio projects. Just double click to open them. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 19 99, otherwise the robot will refuse to move forward and will constantly tell you there is drop in front of the robot. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 21 To learn about developing Visual C# projects/applications there are a few resources you can use to learn. The ‘Getting Started’ section after opening Visual C# Express Edition has a number of links. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 22 The Microsoft webpage also offers many learning tutorials for Visual Studio, see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/beginner/ Step 5 Click on the Toolbox tab on the left side of the screen. It will expand but be empty to begin with. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 24 Step 7 Under the .NET Framework Components tab, click the ‘browse’ button. Go to C:\Program Files\White Box Robotics\White Box PC-BOT .NET Components for VS2005\VisualStudio2005\ Choose the PC-BOT.dll and click ‘Open’. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 25 Click OK as all the PC-BOT components to the Visual Studio Toolbox. Step 9 Start a new Visual Studio project. In the menu bar, go to File New Project. Choose the ‘Windows Application’ template and click OK. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 27 Click on the Toolbox tab on the left side of the screen, it should be full of components to build your applications. Scroll to the bottom where you will find the PC-BOT components. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 28 Drag and drop any of the PC-BOT components to the Windows Application Form screen and see what happens. For this example application the ‘Drive’, ‘Toolbar’ and ‘M3’ components were put in the Form. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 29 The user should also read the PC-BOT_914_dotNET_v1.0.pdf document found on the White Box Robtics Webpage as a technical guide to the PC-BOT .NET components specifically.
Page 30 On EACH of the components you put in the Form1 windows, you need to connect them to the M3 component. In the ‘Properties Window’ scroll down until you see “PC-BOTm3”. By default it is set to (none). © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 31 Save All. Choose a name for your application such as ‘Simple PC-BOT Application’. Notice where the project will be built and choose a different location if you want. Click Save. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 32 Step 16 In the menu bar of Visual Studio Express, choose Build Build Solution. Step 17 Open a folder up and go to the location where you saved the project. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 33 Open the Simple PC-BOT Application folder and see the project files and folders within. Step 18 Open the next ‘Simple PC-BOT Application’ folder and then the ‘bin’ folder. You will see a Debug and Release folder. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 34 Step 19 Open the ‘Release’ folder and you will find the newly created Simple PC-BOT Application. Double click it to view and use it. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 35 Open the PC-BOT Visual Studio Express sample projects in the menu bar by File Open Project… Go to C:\Program Files\White Box Robotics\White Box PC-BOT .NET Components for VS2005\ folder © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 36 Step 21 Open any of the folders listed, so for example open the ‘Distance’ folder. Select the ‘Distance.sln’ file, and click Open. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 37 In order to truly understand these sample applications the user will have to go through the online tutorials from Microsoft for Visual Studio as well as the technical documents listed on the White Box Robotics webpage. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/beginner/ http://www.whiteboxrobotics.com/ © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 38 NOTE: As environments and lighting can vary so much, we cannot guarantee proper operation when the robot is moving autonomously. Care should be taken to ensure its safety. © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...
Page 39 Microsoft Visual Studio Express (free version) Webpage http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx Microsoft Visual Studio Express tutorials and documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/beginner/ White Box Robotics .NET Support section http://www.whiteboxrobotics.com/PCBOTs/support_dotnet.html Microsoft Robotics Studio webpage http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/robotics/default.aspx © Copyright 2006-2007 White Box Robotics Inc. and Frontline Robotics Inc...

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