Scott
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RE: My robot drives like a drunk toddler

Just a thought, but does anybody here live in the UK and fancy taking a look at this if I were to post it to them? You're welcome to make whatever alt...

1 month ago
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RE: My robot drives like a drunk toddler

Thanks all, I still believe that the encoder signals are at fault from my experiments driving the robot and from counting the wheel revolutions when...

1 month ago
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RE: My robot drives like a drunk toddler

This sounds promising. Excuse my ignorance, but "across the encoder signal lines" means a capacitor between "A" and "B" in these sensor signal lines? ...

2 months ago
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RE: My robot drives like a drunk toddler

@tfmccarthy Thanks, I'm only interested in whether the code would be adequate to pick up the signals from the encoders if they were working correctly....

2 months ago
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RE: My robot drives like a drunk toddler

@robotbuilder Great work, thanks for finding that.

2 months ago
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RE: My robot drives like a drunk toddler

Yes, afraid so.     Yeah, 960 pulses per turn sounds wonderful but any slight inaccuracy is multiplied by 120X. That said, mine is...

2 months ago
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RE: My robot drives like a drunk toddler

Thanks everyone, I've tried other methods but counting just one of the sensors per motor has the best results so far. By this method one rotation o...

2 months ago
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RE: The nRF24L01 - Wireless Joystick for Arduino Robot Car with nRF24L01+

@arlo Mate, you sussed it, thanks so much. It's been weeks and I thought I was going to have to give up. Scott.

5 years ago
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RE: The nRF24L01 - Wireless Joystick for Arduino Robot Car with nRF24L01+

Scratch that, I didn't put in the # you said at the beginning of: #define RH_ASK_ARDUINO_USE_TIMER2 I'll carry on and see how I go. Than...

5 years ago
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RE: The nRF24L01 - Wireless Joystick for Arduino Robot Car with nRF24L01+

@arlo, No, I've now removed that from the library and reinstalled arduino IDE to be safe. I did an experiment to see what happened if I commented ou...

5 years ago
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RE: The nRF24L01 - Wireless Joystick for Arduino Robot Car with nRF24L01+

Oh dear. I went to "RH_ASK.ccp" and found this block, and uncommented the bottom line to read as below: // RH_ASK on Arduino uses Timer 1 to gener...

5 years ago
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RE: The nRF24L01 - Wireless Joystick for Arduino Robot Car with nRF24L01+

@arlo Well done Arlo, I'd never have worked that out myself. I'll give it a try.

5 years ago
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RE: The nRF24L01 - Wireless Joystick for Arduino Robot Car with nRF24L01+

Thanks Troles, I think that like you, I'm having trouble with the reliability of Nrf24-01's and perhaps should consider Bluetooth. These modules don't...

5 years ago
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RE: The nRF24L01 - Wireless Joystick for Arduino Robot Car with nRF24L01+

@rich1860 Thanks, I have found the library but not the youtuber you referred to, do you have a link?

5 years ago
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