Urgent help sales - Going to buy ultimate 2.0

#1

Hi,

I wanted to buy your fantastic ultimate 2 kit and I wanted to be creative with it . Ie. Making new bots, not just the ones from the kit but I plan to use python with a raspberry pi. In the forums it seems that everyone is finding problems in comparability between mega pi and raspberry pi. Is it 100% compatible? Because I only want to buy this if I can programme with python through my raspberry pi.

One last thing, is there any problems in the compatibility and will you support me in my journey or is the kit much better for arduino then I won’t get it.

Thanks, please help asap
P.s using model 3 of raspberry pi

#2

PLease @tec_support i know I’m being impatient sorry but it’s really urgent

#3

Hi Onlyvips,

The MegaPi board provides an interface for Raspberry Pi to make more possibilities for makers.
Here are all the instructions we can provide for the MegaPi and Raspberry, it is under 6.Guide to programming part in this link to you for reference.

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Normally, the megaPI just provides a serial communication with the raspberry Pi,when use the MegaPi with raspberry Pi, you’d better know the configurations on raspberry Pi very well.

If you use Raspberry Pi 3, normally it compatibles with MegaPi. Since this kind usage is belong to advanced application for makers which may beyond our ability, we can only provide limited support except the existed instructions.

#4

Hi, @tec_support
Thanks, I am using pi 3b. Will it be fully compatible. I am a beginner and want to expand prospects. Here are my questions:

  1. Will pi 3b be fully compatible through python. I mean will I be able to control everything aka motors servo gyro.

  2. Will you provide python instructions for your kits.

  3. Are there often problems between 3b and mega pi.

  4. Can I programme completely in python or will I need to use raspberry too.

If you can answer these I will be very happy and purchase immediately

Thanks!

#5

Please @tec_support , I am about to spend serious money. Ik I am pestering sorry

#6

Hi Onlyvips,

Most of your questions are about the raspberry Pi, I am afraid that I don’t have enough ability to answer it. I’d suggest that you learn more about the raspberry Pi on the raspberry Pi official website before you start using it.

The relationship between MegaPi and Raspberry Pi is just a serial communication protocol, it won’t affect your programming for Raspberry Pi. All the instructions we provided between MegaPi and raspberry Pi is in above link, please kindly check and hope it helps.

#7

I use my MegaPI and Raspberry Pi with the Arduino IDE and C/C++ on the Raspberry Pi. To communicate between them I use the Arduino EasyTransfer Library (ETL) on the megapi and a port of the ETL I made to the RaspberryPI. The ETL lets you copy data structures bidirectionally between two systems that you link with some kind of media. The media can be asynchronous serial ports, I2C, SPI or TCP which lets me also use it with the RaspberryPi wifi or an ESP8266. While I don’t like python as a language I might think about making a ETL library for python.

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