DotBot: easy-to-use micro-robot for education and research purposes

Overview

This repository contains the source code for firmwares usable with the DotBot hardware.

dotbot.mp4

Related projects

The DotBots ecosystem provides Python PyDotBot to interacts with a nRF DK board used a gateway.

The DotBot-libs repository provides low-level peripheral drivers and libraries to facilitate the development of applications for the DotBot platform.

The DotBots hardware design are published on GitHub at https://github.com/DotBots/DotBot-hardware.

Get the code

This repository uses DotBot-libs as a Git submodule. To clone the repository use the following command:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/DotBots/DotBot-firmware

Repository layout

Applications live in two top-level directories, split by execution context:

• apps/ — bare-metal applications that own the whole chip.
• apps-sandbox/ — applications that run as ARM TrustZone non-secure images inside the SwarmIT sandbox.

Each board has a SEGGER Embedded Studio solution at the repository root. Unprefixed solutions (e.g. dotbot-v3.emProject) build the bare-metal applications; sandbox- solutions (e.g. sandbox-dotbot-v3.emProject) build the sandboxed ones.

Building firmwares

The source code of the different applications available in this repository can be built using SEGGER Embedded Studio for ARM. In SEGGER embedded studio, use the package manager (available in menu Tools > Package manager) to install the CMSIS 5 CMSIS-CORE, CMSIS-DSP and nRF packages.

For details on SEGGER Embedded Studio, read the online documentation.