70016 Parallax Inc, 70016 Datasheet - Page 164

• Manufacturer Part Number: 70016
• Description: TEXT INFRARED REMOTE FOR BOE-BOT
• Manufacturer: Parallax Inc

Specifications of 70016

• Accessory Type: Manual
• Product: Microcontroller Accessories
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Contains lead / RoHS non-compliant
• For Use With/related Products: Boe-Bot®
• For Use With: 29122 - KIT PARTS IR REMOTE FOR BOE-BOT
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Lead free / RoHS Compliant, Contains lead / RoHS non-compliant

SUMMARY
This chapter introduced some more applications you can create with the IR remote
application.
accomplished in subroutines. The I/O pins, variables, and constants also have to be
defined and documented in the declarations section. When application programs follow
these conventions, it makes it possible to combine the two (or more) of these programs to
achieve more difficult and complex robotic goals.
The first two activities focused on how to merge and integrate more than one application
program into a larger program that does more. In each of these activities, subroutines
from the various programs were copied and pasted into a larger program, likewise with
the constants, variables, and other declarations. By virtue of the fact that application
programs are written to be modular, none of the subroutines had to be modified. Instead,
they were utilized and orchestrated in the main routine. By relying on the functionality of
the subroutines, the main routine could be written in simpler terms while accomplishing
much more difficult tasks.
In the first two activities, testing programs and circuits that were used in Robotics with
the Boe-Bot was emphasized. Each of the programs and circuits have to be known to
work on their own before they can be combined into a larger circuit and/or program.
SELECT…CASE
options that are chosen by a menu system. This scheme is easy to expand by simply
adding more
The subroutines in a single application template can also be used in new and creative
ways to create more powerful robotic behaviors. The third activity demonstrated this by
building an IR remote keypad entry scheme for programming the Boe-Bot. EEPROM
storage was examined more closely as a tool for storing and retrieving sequences of
characters and values. By using the
define blocks of unused program memory for use by the program. Optional
names can be placed before the
It makes storing values to
READ
list of related items, such as Boe-Bot maneuvers and distances.
command much simpler. Especially if you have to store and manage more than one
CASE
Application programs have to be well organized, with each task
was introduced as a way of choosing between alternate main routine
statements.
EEPROM
DATA
with the
to help calculate the location of a given
@Address
WRITE
operator in a
command and retrieving them with the
DATA
directive, you can
DataItem
Symbol
.