Last night I downloaded a fresh copy of the Arduino IDE, as I think I corrupted the old install by going who knows what. Fired it up, grabbed the Sparkfun Redbot libraries, and got it blinking. I sent over a test of the wheels and nothing. Batteries must be dead, so I replaced the batteries. Nothing. Now this has been kicking down in the Den for quite a while now, but everything looks fine. Oh, but I did have the motor disable switch flipped. So that works now. Then, right before the kingdom of Nod attacked, I loaded the serial command setup and spun some tires.
So tonight, I should focus on the Raspberry Pi end, I’ll grab the one not in the Pi-Top, and start loading softwa… nope. Tonight I’ll change the default user and password. Security! Then get an outbound serial terminal for driving the RedBot. Then I’ll look at chopping out the excess software and putting on what I need. Maybe I should look for an OpenCV crash course online.