Hands on

The first hand on the create. This create package comes with the Create robot, a Remote control, 2 Virtual walls,a Command Module and a software disk. It also comes with a USB connector and a serial cable. Manuals are provided in the disk and I am including the most required steps for getting started.

• Setup the create by installing the battery component and charge it completely before use. Once the robot is charged, it is ready to play and this robot comes with  inbuilt behaviors that run on hitting play button.There are 11 different behaviors that the robot comes with. To stop and particular behavior and to move on to the next, hit fwd button and play button respectively.The robot returns to the first behavior after the 11th one and the cycle continues. ( Basically it is written in an infinite loop). 
• To get started on the programming, the command module must be installed and WinAVR must be installed on the pc you are going to work with. The manual provides everything and the examples give a really good start in programming them. 
• It is very important to note that the program you downloaded onto the robot works on initiating the command module. So either hit soft button or the reset button ( depends on your program) to get started on the execution of the program you just downloaded. 
• The robot has a 8 bit ATMega168 MicroController ( Command module's brain). So the maximum integer when using a 8 bit operation (unsigned) is 999. { 8 bits = 2^n-1; n = 3, the max integer value with 3 digits is 999}