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Testing has been done on multiple boards, multiple motor controllers, and multiple downloads to make sure it's stock. When using an Uno, even the genuine uno after 30 seconds to 1 minute the motor control pins get reversed (the robot starts going backwards). I haven't been able to find a cure for this issue, since it's persisted through different uno models, genuine and clones, fresh code and highly edited.

I have confirmed that it's the Uno doing the switch, as if the pins were disconnected and swapped, not a motor driver issue.

Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks for your time.

How is it using this much ram!?

Sensors use PingNeuron() to stimulate cennectome. This approach forces neurons in question to fire completely disregarding state of the neurone. Also, there is no way to include weight of the stimuli. Using AddToNextState() or similar function to "charge" a sensory neuron might represent biological behavior more accurately: neuron would fire whenever it has cumulated certain State and sensory data would increment the State more rapid.

This issue becomes apparent when trying to use weak sensory signals (real worm can sense huge dynamic range of certain chemicals).

P.S. amazing project!

Using Arduino IDE 1.6.7 on Ubuntu 14.04. I did a git clone and then used Arduino IDE verify to build and got error messages about invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'uint8_t* {aka unsigned char*}' [-fpermissive] for the 3 malloc for CurrMuscleState, NextMuscleState and IdleCycles so I cast the void to the pointer type it wanted. It compiles.

My Arduino has been collecting dust but want to make it do something and this idea of the neural net is interesting. The diff is as follows.

diff --git a/nemotoduino.ino b/nemotoduino.ino
index 631b66f..8cd3968 100644
--- a/nemotoduino.ino
+++ b/nemotoduino.ino
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ int8_t CurrConnectedState[N_NTOTAL];
 int8_t NextConnectedState[N_NTOTAL];
 
 // Another set for muscles that aren't connected to other cells
-int16_t* CurrMuscleState = malloc((N_NTOTAL-N_MAX)*sizeof(int16_t));
-int16_t* NextMuscleState = malloc((N_NTOTAL-N_MAX)*sizeof(int16_t));
+int16_t* CurrMuscleState = (int16_t*)malloc((N_NTOTAL-N_MAX)*sizeof(int16_t));
+int16_t* NextMuscleState = (int16_t*)malloc((N_NTOTAL-N_MAX)*sizeof(int16_t));
 
 // Final set to track how many cycles a neuron has been idle
-uint8_t* IdleCycles = malloc(N_MAX*sizeof(uint8_t));
+uint8_t* IdleCycles = (uint8_t*)malloc(N_MAX*sizeof(uint8_t));
 
 //
 // Functions for getting and setting these states

The instructions for installing the nematoduino_library are incorrect. There is no ZIP file included in the repo. Attempting to zip and upload manually results in the following error:

LIBRARIES THAT COULD NOT BE IMPORTED:
[utility] parse library.properties: library.properties not found

Could the proper files please be included in the repo?