Turret Controller

This program allows you to control your turret with your terminal. It's also possible to control them from an Arduino (or any other serial device).

Is my turret compatible ?

Currently, only 3 devices are supported. To determine if your device is compatible, run lsusb. Supported ID are :

• 0a81:ff01 : Tenx turrets
• 0416:9391 : Winbond turrets
• 1130:0202 : Chesen wireless turrets

How do I compile it ?

First, you need to check few requirements. You need to have :

• make
• gcc
• libusb > 1.0.19

Then just run make

What can i do now ?

Basically, if you don't know what you can do, just run help. Here are a list of the available commands :

• clear Delete log
• help Display help screen
• stop N Make the turret N stop
• top N Make the turret N go to the top
• bottom N Make the turret N go to the bottom
• left N Make the turret N go to the left
• right N Make the turret N go to the right
• fire N Make the turret N fire
• serial N M Control turrets from serial N at M bauds
• serial Control turrets from /dev/ttyACM0 at 9600 bauds
• exit Exit this program

What should my Arduino send ?

Each time the program query the serial port, it sends one character '?'. Then the Arduino (or any other serial device) respond by a single character describing which turrets will be controlled and how.

• Bit 0..3 :Turret selected (0 for none 1 for turret 1, 2 for turret 2, 3 for turret 1 & 2, etc)
• Bit 4 : Selected turret will fire (1 for fire 0 for nothing)
• Bit 5..7 : (0 for nothing, 1 for left, 2 for right, 3 for bottom, 4 for top)

If Bit 4..7 are set to zero, the selected turrets stop.

Is it possible to use more than 4 turrets ?

If you compile the software as it is, no. Plugging a fifth turret will just do nothing. But technically, it's possible. If you want to increase this limit, you can edit the MAX_TOURET contsant in turret.h, but this is not very well supported. In fact all top``left``right``bottom``stop``fire commands will work but serial will bot use more than 4 turrets and the User Interface will suerly be altered