QBSOFTHAND2 RESEARCH USER MANUAL —
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https://qbrobotics.com/product/qb-softclaw/
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mailto:[email protected]
6 Software
6.1 Configuration GUI
6.1.1 Installation
You can download our GUI from our
(download area).
To install all the requirements for your specific operating system, please refer to
6.1.2 Usage
The
qb SoftHand2 Research
GUI (generally referred as
qbtools
) is a simple application to quickly test the
basic functionalities of the device through a personal computer. It may be also useful to diagnose
—
together to our
troubles about hardware or software components.
The very first thing to do is to click
"Scan Ports"
at the top of the window. If a qb device is properly
connected to the system, its serial port name is shown in the drop-down menu on the left.
When a serial port is found, the "Connect" button becomes available and by clicking on it you scan the
serial resource to find every qbrobotics device connected to the system. If there is at least one device
found, this
operation enables
all of the GUI features and it shows a green
Connected
label next to the
button.
The button
Activate
activates or deactivates the motor driver on the
qb SoftHand2 Reserach
; the
current activation status is shown next to the
Active
/
Inactive
button;
For Linux users: use
chmod +x
on a the downloaded file and make it executable. Right click
on your script and chose
Properties
->
Permissions
->
Allow executing file as program
,
leaves you with the exact same result as the command in terminal.
If there are more than one serial port available, be sure to select the one connected to the qb
SoftHand2 Research of interest.
If no serial port is found, check out the
Remember to power the
qb SoftHand2 Research
before using this GUI.
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