Next-week's target

[carlfoxmarten]

Current status on the CreateSimulator project:

• Editor: Fairly complete. (I just need to attach a bunch of menu items and buttons and add a bunch of icons)
• Creating projects: Close. (I just need to add the widgets to handle it and check to see if that project name already exists)
• Project loading: Complete.
• Compiling projects: Not started.
• Downloading projects to the Command Module: Not started.
• Controlling robots from the computer: Not started.
• Simulating a robot: Nowhere near started.

My target for the upcoming open house event is to be able to have the same code controlling robots in thee different ways:

1. Directly controlling an iRobot Create through the included Command Module.
2. Using a laptop to control a robot through a serial cable.
3. Simulating a virtual robot on a computer.

The last part ia going to be the hardest part, as I don't have to write my own compiler, I'm going to use variations on the GCC compiler.

Next week, I'm hoping to have two compilation paths completed (one for running on the local computer and the other for running on the Command Module's ARM processor) and the simulator at least started.
That should give me a week to finish the simulator, which ought to be enough time.

Let's hope I haven't overdone things again...