my 12yr old son does have some sort of toy robot that's programable via USB
Well, knowing kids, with any luck he's lost interest in it so you can 'borrow' it and . . .
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http://www.valiant-technology.com/uk/pa ... p?cat=8id1
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This thing suffers from a number of problems:
The Valiant people sent me a free one of these about 6 years ago,
and asked me to design a front-end to control this thing via a USB cable . . .
1. I designed a front-end (this did NOT involve a way to get the signals from the front-end into
the robot as, apparently, the chap who had been hired to do that part of the work had high-tailed
it off to Cyprus with the money they had paid him in advance), which I sent them . . .
1.1. Sent it too Dave Caplin (the bloke [as in "bloke" = someone who knows next to nothing about software]
who runs the Valiant company), who took 14 months to acknowledge my email, claiming that he had sent
me the robot on loan (I then checked the original e-mail which stated that the Roamer 2 robot was a sample
for my use and testing to see if I wanted to do a bulk order), AND that my front-end did not answer certain
requirements (which he had not mentioned previously).
1.1.1 I, carefully, 'forgot' to rise to the bait about returning the robot.
1.2. Reverted to Dave Caplin anent those requirements, and received an answer after a month (Wow; record time).
2. I then designed several front-ends [
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3bvfqxzozjp3 ... ISTGa?dl=0 ]
and sent them to him.
2.1. Last week (20th February) wrote and pointed out that I had sent him what he had requested in February 2019 and heard nothing.
2.2. Caplin replied that he had never received the e-mail. I checked my gmail account, and "there it was":
reposted the email, and, predictably, have had no response.
3. How do you write "Dear Sir, I think you are a complete plonker." without actually being offensive? Hey, wait a mo'. . .
This device is exactly the sort of thing that should lend itself to a LiveCode bit of software to program it . . .