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- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable A Christmas-tree PCB Ornament8 weeks ago
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Android Controlled, Path Following Vehicle2 months agoView Instructable »
Sure, why not!
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable My Physical Web Space4 months agoView Instructable »
I guess you can but you might need adjustments since it has been a long time since and you'll have to use a stronger power source.
- Dimitris Platis's instructable Create Custom Actions for Google Assistant's weekly stats: 6 months ago
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable My Physical Web Space7 months agoView Instructable »
It has been a while since I wrote this, so it's possible that things have changed in the meanwhile. What do you mean by not clearing wpa_supplicant.conf? Have you not commented it out in the interfaces file?
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Android Controlled, Path Following Vehicle11 months agoView Instructable »
What report are you talking about?
- Dimitris Platis's instructable Nevma: Gesture Control for the Masses's weekly stats: 1 year ago
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Android Controlled, Path Following Vehicle1 year ago
Then it might be possible, yes.
Hi,You would need to debug this and figure out what might be failing. The error message does not give much to go on.
View Instructable »Hi,Any recent version will do. Your problem is most definitely NOT with the version. What have you made exactly? What is your setup?Please try to explained with as many details (pictures, print screens etc) as possible, otherwise it is impossible for me to understand what can be going wrong.Also, as I mention in the instructable, this is not an application that I personally made, so I am not 100% familiar with the code.
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Android Controlled, Path Following Vehicle1 year agoView Instructable »
I haven't used the MIT App Inventor a lot, but unless there is a way to "draw" stuff on the screen and be able to process the drawn path, no.
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Android Controlled, Path Following Vehicle1 year agoView Instructable »
Hi,Which part of the app are you referring to?
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Blinking a LED with Onion Omega2 years agoView Instructable »
Maybe something has changed in the API for the GPIOs since then. Try just turning the light on however they do this nowadays and then it will be a piece of cake modifying the script. :)
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Blinking a LED with Onion Omega2 years agoView Instructable »
Are you trying to run exactly the same code?
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Android controlled, path following vehicle2 years agoView Instructable »
Its path following features cannot work out of the box, as every car will be different. Can you describe what doesn't work?
- Dimitris Platis's instructable A Christmas-tree PCB Ornament's weekly stats: 2 years ago
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable A Christmas-tree PCB Ornament2 years agoView Instructable »
Thanks! :)
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable A Christmas-tree PCB Ornament2 years ago
- Dimitris Platis entered A Christmas-tree PCB Ornament in the Homemade Gifts Contest 2016 contest 2 years ago
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Android controlled, path following vehicle2 years agoView Instructable »
This error unfortunately does not give much to go on. I would suggest that you try to compile the application yourself and see what is the error exactly!
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Android controlled, path following vehicle2 years agoView Instructable »
There can be too many reasons for an error. I'd need more information, such as, is the Bluetooth turned on and has it paired with the device already (outside the app)?
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Simple, easy and cheap wireless presenter2 years agoView Instructable »
Nice! Does it work as expected too? :D
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable My Physical Web Space2 years agoView Instructable »
I've tried this with iPhones as well. They work just as fine. So now you know how to do this! :)
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Simple, easy and cheap wireless presenter2 years agoView Instructable »
I'm glad that I helped! :)
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Simple, easy and cheap wireless presenter2 years ago
Well, whatever works... Try also different IR transmitters. Maybe some other are more consistent. By the way, you can decrease the size of your "cases" by doing this: (for the right arrow)<pre>case 16607383:case 21871754:case 975146095:case 2246090081:case 2292190138:case 2321333080:case 2844203703: Keyboard.press(KEY_RIGHT_ARROW); break;</pre>
View Instructable »Well, whatever works... Try also different IR transmitters. Maybe some other are more consistent.By the way, you can drastically decrease the lines of your code by doing this: (in this case for the right arrow and similarly for the rest)case 16607383:case 21871754:case 975146095:case 2246090081:case 2292190138:case 2321333080:case 2844203703:Keyboard.press(KEY_RIGHT_ARROW);break;Also, I'd also suggest adding some small delays (e.g. 20 ms) between sending the keystroke, releasing it and continuing, so to give the system some "breathing" time. Hopefully the consistency might get improved that way as well.
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Simple, easy and cheap wireless presenter2 years ago
Your problem seems sort of irrelevant to the specific project indeed. Can you do a sanity check and verify you can receive strings from the Arduino? Are you using the same code as the one posted here?
View Instructable »Hi, I am glad you got it (kinda) working!Regarding the "rolling" values, I don't think I had that problem myself, even though I don't always get a 100% consistent value. However using the "most common one" like you did, works well enough.I have not noticed the "drifting" after you stop sending an IR signal. It sounds really strange. This could always be a hardware issue, so try it with a different remote control if possible.However, this sounds awfully lot like a code bug. Have you verified that you are actually receiving the same value over and over instead of just forgetting to release the key/mouse after you are done with it? To put it simply, are you using the resume() and the releaseAll() functions in the appropriate section of your code?
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Blinking a LED with Onion Omega2 years agoView Instructable »
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- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Android controlled, path following vehicle2 years agoView Instructable »
Hi Drougni,From what I see, the new motorshield from Adafruit works via I2C. You could in theory edit my (old) libraries, but I would suggest that you use Adafruit's library for moving the car.For the rest (rotating with the gyroscope and traveling specific distances with the speed encoders) I would suggest my newest library (Smartcar shield), which works in a very similar (and improved) way.
- Dimitris Platis commented on Dimitris Platis's instructable Android controlled, path following vehicle2 years ago
Hmmm, as the speed encoder measures distances it is crucial for the general functionality of the vehicle.A work around would be to experimentally determine how much time the car needs to move X centimeters. Therefore when the car needs to move 50 centimeters, instead of using the encoder to get the travelled distance you would move the car for a specified amount of time.
View Instructable »It is used to calculate the distance that is travelled by the vehicle.
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Looks awesome! :)