You can connect via the standard usb but it is a pain in the butt to setup as you have to have 2 bit of software running in the background on of the pc to keep the connection to the bot open. The 2 bit of software running in the background are used to create a virtual serial port for the RS media. The serial hack is the way I would advise you to go. It isn’t that complicated to do as you just need to solder a few wires to the to media board inside the robot.
The media board is located located under the plastic cover behind the neck. To remove this plastic cover you will need to unscrew all 8 screws(shown in the picture below) that connect the back plate to the chest plate. Next gentle move the chest plate forward. You can now slide the plastic cover behind the neck forward and remove it to reveal the media board. You can now add the serial hack which is a matter of soldering wires to four of the pads media board as shown below.
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I have now done the serial hack to 4 of the 5 RS media I have in this way and as long as you are careful it is easy enough to solder the wires to the board with out removing the board from the robot. The next thing to do is to add the TTL chip to the serial hack so you can communicate to the robot from the PC. There are 2 types of connection for the serial hack which are: Wired connection USB ttl chip which uses 3 wires (RX TX and GND) and Wireless Bluetooth TTL which uses 4 wires (RX TX GND and 3.3v) When I started off with the robots myself I used to use the USB TTL chip but found having the robot teathered to the pc was a pain so quickly move to the Bluetooth TTL chip. If you do decide to go for the Bluetooth chip you will still need the USB TTL chip in order to initially program it to a port speed of 115200 which is what the RS media uses.
Robot App™ Description Developers: Helibot and Jamie Kugelmann The RS Media Development Kit is another system that is far more technical and geared towards those with previous Linux experience, or those that want to get their feet wet in the very technical aspects of the RS Media robot. Allows access to RSMedia's Linux console via the USB cable. Updated version includes improved instructions, moved rsupdateapp to a rsupdate directory, and also changed the device driver name to 'RS Media USB Console'. You'll have to uninstall the old version and install the new driver for this to be shown. Features * Cross-Tool Compiler Package: Compile C programs that run on the RS Media Robot, even linking to the soft-float libraries.
This package can be installed on nearly any Linux distribution. It includes the compiler and sources, sample source code to test the compiler, installation script, sample robot BodyCon script, GPL License and instructions. Credit: Helibot. *USB Serial Console Package: No hardware hack needed! Access your RS Media's Linux system, run commands and scripts, browse files all via USB Port!
The software makes it easy to. -Connect to The RS Media via serial port -Control the movement of RS media. Download LAME.EXE for free from the. Free Download and information on RS Media Suite - RS Media™ is a complete multimedia robotic experience with the unique ability to be fully customized. The perfect fusion of cutting-edge technology and personality modeling software, RS Media.
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This package is GPL Licensed and contains the LibUSB driver customized for the RS Media Robot, Robot USB Console Linux Module, BodyCon and rsupdateapp files, Windows USB to Robot Bridge, Windows Desktop Icon and instructions for installation and use. Your robot does not need to come with the USBNet feature in order to use this package! This should work on nearly any RS Media Robot. For the Windows part, you need a telnet program (TerraTerm is supported), and Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista.
Credit: Helibot. * Serial Port Networking: Run a web server and telnet server via the serial port on your robot! Require the serial port hardware hack and a robot with version 2 firmware. Credit: Helibot. *Text to Speech: Get your robot to say anything using a text-to-speech engine! No more canned phrases.