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Mark III Software
Goals
- Provide software and programming environment easily accessible to beginners and secondary school students.
- No proprietary programming environments or software required
- Support a variety of languages to appeal to all levels of expertise
- Libraries of code, in all supported languages, for standard and optional sensors
- Supports as wide a range of computing platforms as possible
- Open source software
Languages
- Basic (proponent Mark Gross)
- Using Celestial Horizons' CH Flash Basic Compiler
- Celestial Horizons is providing a PIC16F877 version especially for the Mark III Kit. This special-edition CH Flash Basic Compiler will be included in the Kit when you order.
- JAL (proponent Brett Nelson)
- JAL can be found at http://www.xs4all.nl/~wf/wouter/pic/jal/
- C (proponent James Farwell)
- CC5X compiler from http://www.bknd.com/cc5x/index.shtml. Integrates with the MPLAB development environment.
- PIC assembly (proponent Rick Farmer)
- Develop using Microchip's MPLAB
Example code
- Simple Mini Sumo program
- Simple line following program
- How to program optional components
- Servo calibration
