On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Dan Roganti <ragooman@gmail.com> wrote:
2. Moving the stick left or right does nothing. That's by design. As I said I'm going to take a break from this project for a while. Later I might make L/R movement do what buttons 0/1 do now. That would give people more standard joystick control to drive, backup, and steer. Then I can use the buttons for other tricks, such as turning on the headlights/taillights and controlling the opto/touch sensors. (Last fall, just for giggles, I put a brakelight in the Logo robot at World Maker Faire. Real easy -- when the 'bot stops, turn on the extra light behind a red Lego lens. I could just as easily make backup lights that way -- when the 'bot goes in reverse, turn on more extra lights and make the computer beep every few seconds! Turn signals would also be simple.) Lots of fun possibilities here.
Add a Bumper switch too next so it can sense it's environment
so you might be wondering, why should I add that, cause I operate this under Remote Control well, it's just another -small- demonstration of adding intelligence, you know, the robot can now think, [adults only please] "hey dumbass, you made me hit the WALL, I'm going to turn around NOW" :) and assume control of itself for a brief time until it turns around the kids will get a kick out of seeing that Dan