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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: nelsontechnical on June 16, 2011, 01:31:05 PM

Title: Using SDK Java programming on the Bluetooth Zeemote JDI with motor controller
Post by: nelsontechnical on June 16, 2011, 01:31:05 PM

Hello everyone,

I am trying to see if anyone could give me any help or advice on using the Zeemote JD1 controller SDK that has custom Java programming (http://"http://www.zeemote.com/uk/developers/zeemote-sdk/") to link up with a RoboteQ MDC2250 Dual Channel 2 x 60A, 7V-50V DC Motor Controller (http://"http://www.robotshop.com/roboteq-mdc2250-dual-channel-dc-motor-controller-2.html")

MicroBasic sounds like it is pretty close to Java, and the MDC2250 already has a 32-bit microcomputer installed. So I am hoping that I could just create a MicroBasic program using the SDK kit that Zeemote provided that could connect with the JD1 remote (or find someone who could help me do that), and than I could hopefully just connect a USB Bluetooth dongle receiver, and use the JD1 remote as a motor controller.


This needs to be a small wireless one-handed controller, because this is for a hoverboard project that I am working on. Two handed controllers will be too big for what I need.


Any advice you may have on this would be very much appreciated!

I would love to be able to use the Zeemote JD1 as they are very nice looking controllers. :)
(http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/zeemote-js1-2.jpg)

Title: Re: Using SDK Java programming on the Bluetooth Zeemote JDI with motor controller
Post by: nelsontechnical on June 16, 2011, 04:41:22 PM

Also, if MicroBasic is not directly compatible with Java, than I thought that I might have to get another microcontroller that runs Java that could hook up to a Bluetooth receiver and send signals to the MDC2250. One option would be the Intellibrain2 Robotics controller from RidgeSoft  (http://www.ridgesoft.com/intellibrain2/intellibrain2.htm), or the Genesi EFIKA MX Open Client Micro Computer (http://www.robotshop.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pc=RB-Gen-01).

This use of the Bluetooth JD1 motor control for the MDC2250 is just a test propulsion project for my hoverboard project. If I can figure out how to get the Bluetooth connection up and running, than I would also need to get another RobteQ MDC2250, and a HDC2450 motor controller and do the same Bluetooth interface.