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2022-02-23 5:27 pm
I got one of these recently and my 9yo grandson and I had a good experience building it. it wasn't easy but by replaying several spots in the YT Build video and looking over the parts lists carefully we did it together and really bonded over it// This is our second Robot car. the 1st was a Makeblock mBot Mega that was easier to build but VERY difficult to integrate anything new into its systems Arduino s/w.. so I had hoped programming one would be easier with the Elegoo car since I watched Bill's 3 videos on it and it seemed incredibly simple by comparison.. Turns out the V4 is a lot different product, it does not have the Elegoo V3 Tutorial set or level of detail as does the V4, and it's got BlueTooth and no ESP32 CAM, and a markedly different control structure.. IN any case my problem(s) now are these:
I can't get the V4 system .ino to compile. The pre-compiler is unable to find some of the libraries it references, yet I was very sure to add all 4 folders and the dozen or so .h and .cpp files needed. The IDE I am using is much later than their examples based on Vers 1.8.9, and it says it's seeing these contributed libraries.. Yet it can't find some macros referenced.
The UNO Board manager I am using is based on the AVR Uno 1.8.5 board and theirs was made on a 1.8.3 board release but I don't think that's causing it.. I really want to get past this issue for several reasons For example..altho the car runs Ok and does all it should do (except Line follow) using the pre-installed firmware in it.. and it is a ton of fun BUT for one thing it's way too hard to control.. the speed should be about 1/2 of what it's set too now by default.. right now it literally does wheelies both forward and backward and often it spins in circles when you want to only gradually turn left or right .. so fixing that is Pri1..( P.S I tried the press "9" to reduce it and that works but ONLY in the IR controller mode but not the FPV mode.
I have left an Amazon review, and two Q/A posts asking for help fixing this and have sent 3 e-mails to their support@elegoo.com address and have not heard.. I also posted a request for help on the Instant Messenger account but no human ( only a Bot) has replied.. so I'm stuck.. I have been studying thinhs like this excellent tutorial: https://www.deviceplus.com/arduino/arduino-preprocessor-directives-tutorial/
But an still lost..
also my MalwareBytes flags their site with : this warning it's a malicious site..
Are any of you seeing this Red flag too if you go here ?:
http://69.195.111.207/tutorial-download/?t=RobotCarV4.0
this site is key to solving my problem I believe
2022-02-24 12:31 pm
Welcome to the forum and maybe we can be of some assistance helping you through your issues.
I assembled one of the earlier versions of the Elegoo car and had a lot of fun following along with Bill's videos. I even was able to make some changes and 'improvements' in the way my car performed.
But then I went on to another 'toy' and haven't revisited the Elegoo car in quite some time.
I have gone to the site that raised the MalwareBytes flag and can see why possibly that may have happened. I just use the Windows Defender software on my Windows 10 machines and have never had any issues with getting 'infected' with anything. Of course I keep it updated all the time.
The link you provided with just an "http://ipaddress/" is what more than likely made MalwareBytes raise an alarm. If it had been a link like "https://domain.com/," you might not have gotten the warning flag.
I was successful downloading the nearly 300MB zip file that link was pointing to. And when I clicked on the link, all I got was an entirely blank page with the following text centered on the first line: "Your download will begin in 3 seconds." And it did! I did not unzip it but have looked through most of the info it contains, and there is a ton of it, but that's about all I can do since I have no need for any of it.
Is there any chance you could turn MalwareBytes off for long enough to download the Zip file? I stopped using MalwareBytes several years ago as it became so bloated and a huge resource drain on my computer.
Good luck, and I see others have begun to jump into the fray.
SteveG
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2022-02-24 3:17 pm
@codecage thank you for taking a look at the site and your help assessing it.I did go ahead and retrieve the files and have successfully compiled them but had to move to my laptop (another Win 10machine) .. I’m making progress, as to the vendor, they did reply with an apology for the delay and said they’d read my email (sent 4days ago)