Instructions, continued:

(4) Drag a Linkbot instruction block such as driveDistance() to the Workspace area of RoboBlockly.

(5) Click “Run” or “Step” to move the virtual Linkbot on the grid and the hardware Linkbot at the same time.

(6) If the hardware Linkbot does not move, you may need to restart the Barobo Linkbot Service program by right-clicking on the “L” in the Windows task list at the bottom right of the screen (Figures 3 and 4 below) or clicking on the “L” in the Mac menu bar at the top of the screen (in the list of icons on the right side of the menu bar, Figure 5 below). Choose “Restart Linkbot Service” from the popup menu. (If the "L" is missing, restarting the computer should solve the problem, as the Linkbot Service is launched automatically when the computer starts. If you are using a Windows machine, an alternative to restarting is to double click the "LinkbotServiceManager.exe" program located at C:/Program Files (x86)/LinkbotLabs 2.1.x.)

Figure 3: Accessing the Linkbot Service “L” in the Windows task list.

Figure 4: The popup menu with Linkbot Service options (Windows interface).

Figure 5: The Linkbot Service “L” in the Mac menu bar (your list of icons will be different). A similar popup window as for Windows will appear when you click the L.

Instructions, continued:

Also see the questions and answers on the “Linkbot Troubleshooting” FAQ page. For further debugging, you can click “Save Ch” to save a program’s Ch code with the default name “roboblockly.ch” in the C-STEM Studio->My Workspace->RoboBlockly folder and then launch it with the ChIDE software. Then click “Run” in ChIDE and see what error messages are displayed to debug the problem.

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