Getting Started

~Hewwo~ and welcome to KIPR's libwallaby tutorial. This tutorial assumes that you know a bit of C. If you don't, there are many online resources for learning C.

Now, let's dive in.

Let's start with a simple robot with two wheels (depicted with W's) and two motors (depicted with M's) as shown.

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W-M    M-W
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In order to move our robot forward, we would first plug in the motors to ports 0 and 1. Then, run the following code snippet.

#include <kipr/wombat.h>  // this is the file with all the kipr functions
#include <stdio.h>        // this is the file that allows for output
 
int main(){
     printf("Hello World! This is the Getting Started tutorial.\n");
 
     // define our variables
     int left_motor = 0;   // the port of the left motor
     int right_motor = 1;  // the port of the right motor
 
     // move forward
     motor(left_motor, 100); // move at 100% forward
     motor(right_motor, -100);  // move at 100% backward since this motor is facing the opposite direction as the left motor
     msleep(1000);  // wait 1 second
 
     // stop moving
     ao();
 
 
     printf("Congratulations! You finished the getting started tutorial.\n");
     return 0;
}

Just like that, you've got your robot moving! We'll continue in the next tutorial with distance sensors and line following.