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Posted by Larry Lukis on August 16, 2010 at 4:30pm
I've been getting the RoBoard up and running because I'd like to have a lot more compute power than the Arduino platform has. My plan is to interface RoBoard to APM, use APM for most of the I/O and eventually do some higher level vision processing on the RoBoard.

Now have Windows XP running on RoBoard, can write programs on my main workstation using Visual Studio which is great because it's what I've been using for the last 15 years.

Two tips for success with RoBoard in such an environment for anybody who might want to try:
1. If you get RB-100, don't bother buying a USB floppy to load the RB-100's IDE driver. You want to use nLite to make your modified XP install CD per the posts on RoboSavy.com. It's free, it works, and with it, you can strip down your XP install to use only the minimal stuff you need.
2. The RoBoard docs say you can put the winio files either in your application directory, or in windows\system32. I put them in windows\system32 and wasted a day because the winio library initialization failed. Eventually I tried putting them in the application directory, and it worked fine.

Next step... See if I can get RoBoard talking to APM.
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