The 3-wheel car is built with the Makeblock Robot Starter Kit. (Plus some Legos for style.) It has a Bluetooth module. It is controlled by the phone’s gyros via Bluetooth. You drive it like a steering wheel with two hands, or like Darth Vader with one hand. 1. Code for the smartphone below. I saved […]
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How to build a Makeblock Bluetooth/WiFi Cellbot car
Ingredients: – LG Optimus Dynamic – PC game controller (joystick) – pygame for joystick input – python script runs on PC to translate joystick input to movement commands – SL4A to send movement commands from PC to smartphone over WiFi – smartphone sends movement commands to Arduino via Bluetooth (also SL4A) – Arduino translates commands […]
Robot Kit – Day 7
Our new ultrasonic car + IR code seems to work well, even in the living room. You only wanted to switch to MAX SPEED to watch it go nuts: We made an interesting discovery: mama’s fuzzy bunny slippers are invisible to the ultrasonic sensor. I tried to demonstrate why by bouncing some balls off different […]
PC to android smartphone recipe
Bao has been taking a break. I think having a robot that moves on its own stresses you out. You’ve been running to flip the off switch after playing with Bao a little. Maybe it’s too much for a 3 year old to deal with. On the plus side, now you know the deal with […]
Robot Kit – Day Six
Oh the wonderful things a robot can do It can go CHOO CHOO It can go BEEP BEEP I’m going to resist making any more mods until you suggest them. I also want to give mama a chance to tinker. Because she said, “But I wanted to do the BEEP!” One thing we might have […]
Robot Kit – Day Five
Here’s Bao with fresh batteries and the new program I was impressed with how quickly you understood its algorithm. We had a play date in the afternoon and Bao was an excellent babysitter Later, I got excited when the CR2025 batteries came in the mail for the IR remote. So we upgraded Bao with IR […]
Robot Kit – Day Four
“I want to call it a Sister Kit, not a Starter Kit.” Its name is now Bow (as in Bow-wow). And it’s a girl. Batteries are still charging. Meanwhile, I showed you the code and the instruction “Forward”. We’re learning how to “teach” the robot how to do things by sending it instructions. The first […]
Robot Kit – Day Three
Uh oh, we’re missing the brain bucket The plastic rivets in the kit were a pain. Too small for my fingers. I fumbled for a long time and it wasn’t something you could help with. Finally it was time to put on the eyes. Then you tried connecting the batteries to the brains. Beep! Then […]
Makeblock Robot Starter Kit – Day one
It’s here! We took it out of the box And we put the base together We got the Version 2 IR kit and added a Bluetooth module. It was about the same price as getting the Bluetooth kit (that didn’t come with the IR sensor and remote). We also got a pack of 10 AA […]