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finally getting back to it

Things went by pretty quickly this month, and I was not able to play around with this project much. 

I did tinker with it every now and then, but I was never able to get myself past the residing issue of compiling the RF library in the Raspberry Pi.

It seemed people are generally interested in the project linked in the previous post, as people were actively posting comments on it. 

Couple of days ago a user posted a solution to the compile issues (changes to method names and usage of pre-defined values for parameters), and I thought I should try following it to see if it works. 

The code indeed compiled, and I was able to change it a little more to be more fitting to my project. 

On the Arduino side, it might be a premature assumption, but it seemed like the Arduino was unable to handle messaging through the RF and controlling the servo at the same time. My assumption is that the inability to control them in separate threads is causing some timing issues, but I might be over-analyzing.

The current solution is to use two separate Arduinos--one to handle the message and another to move the servo. The Arduino the receives the message sends a signal to the other Arduino, which moves the servo upon reception of the signal. 

Even with this setup, it did seem like the servo was not functioning properly when the message was received, but I believe it was due to the led light causing some signal disruption, as removing it seemed to have solved the issue.

The Raspberry is now able to send a message to the Arduino, but it is successful only about 80% of the time; the message seems to get lost in the other 20%. I'll have to understand the messaging system a bit more to understand what causes the messages to be unsent. 

Here is the result so far:


I will have to clean up the code and figure out the messaging system before I replace this with the current, wired setup.

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