I hope that all of the FIRST team memebers reading this had a successful build season, and my best wishes for competition.

I obviously never posted any code to run the DOS chip thing from the robot controller. Hopefully there was enough information posted so that someone could get it running an an RC. I would love to hear from anyone who has run the chip.

I will do some more work on this, and it will definately be ready for next year!

Jim

Actually, I don't have too much to update, I have been totally swamped with the FIRST Robotics programming challenge.

Next week I hope to integrate the DOS chip with the IFI robot controller, so I will post the new code at that time.

Jim

Part I of this series talked about low-level communication with the module, which is done through a single, hardware dependent function. It also talked a little about how to execute some of the module commands.
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So far the discussion about the DOSonCHIP module has focused on the low-level, hardware requirements to talk to the module. I have gotten this working to the point where it is time to move on to the software aspects of using it.
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SPI stands for Serial Peripheral Interface and was invented by Motorola many years ago, and other companys have called the same interface by different names. It is a synchronous protocol, which means that data is clocked out-of/in-to a device with a separate clock signal. More information can be found here, and there are tons of other sites on the Web with info.
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