Fixo in one page
Fixo is OctoMY's path from "I have hardware on the desk" to "this
hardware moves when I drag a widget on my remote." It turns your
physical rig — board, servos, sensors — into purpose-built firmware
that runs your control intent in real time.
What Fixo is responsible for
Three things, in this order:
- Describing your rig. A preset names the board, lists the
actuators (each pinned and tagged), and lists any sensors. Presets
live with the agent that runs them; you can keep several side by
side and switch between them.
- Wiring intent to outputs. A stanza binds a lobe — a small
real-time program that knows how to translate a control intent
into per-actuator commands — to a remote-side input channel. A
single preset can hold many stanzas, one per behaviour you want
the rig to perform.
- Building and injecting firmware. Fixo compiles the lobes the
stanzas reference into a board-targeted binary and flashes it onto
the connected board. Once the firmware is running, the agent
streams remote inputs into the lobes in real time.
The wizard's job
The Fixo wizard (Set up Fixo in the agent unboxing flow) walks
those three things in order:
- Introduction — this page.
- Pick template — start from a named template (
rc-car,
hexapod, tracked-vehicle, …) that pre-fills a preset for a
common rig shape. If no template fits, jump out to manual setup.
- Configure template — fill in the bits the template can't guess:
which board you have, which pin each actuator is wired to, which
remote channel to bind to.
- Build & inject — Fixo compiles the firmware, flashes it, and
surfaces whatever stage you're currently at (no board attached,
building, building failed, ready to flash, running, …).
Every page is non-modal: edits persist immediately, and a Skip — set up Fixo later action is always reachable. You can come back any
time from the agent menu.
When not to use the wizard
The wizard is the gentle path. Once you've done it once, the Fixo
Studio surface (Manage → Presets, Manage → Boards, …) is where you
edit existing presets, author custom lobes, and shape stanzas by
hand. The wizard remains available as the "back to safety" route if
you ever want a fresh, guided start.
Where Fixo lives