I received the CyberBrick base kit yestarday and started building the remote controller, followed all the intructions perfectly. As soon as i tried to turn it on the white led on the receiver shield turns on and the fades off not powering the remote. I tried all the core to exclude some problem witht the board itself, same thing with the shield, tried both but nothing. The Cores and the Shields work perfectly beacouse i tried powering them via usb c and they work perctly. What should i do?
Thans
Limit to 3 posts in one topic? So I moved to this one as I am still working on my issue.
I have one of the remotes apart. Disconnected everything and essentially started over. Connect one joystick to the 1 and 2 ports, connected the other joystick to the 1 and 2 ports, yes they are different orientations based on the side the joystick is on. Connected the button, then the switch, then the toggle.
What I expect to happen, the right joystick will operate the side to side controls. This part works. The left joystick should control the forward and backward. This one does not operate at all. The tracks turn as soon as I link the bot and controller together. There is no slow down, speed up, changing directions… nothing. It just feels dead. Like there is no power or anything getting to it… if that makes sense.
I can understand if it was only one of them, disappointing for sure, but for both of them to have the same problem, I feel that this is something that has to do with the boards.
I tried to reset the boards (hold the 2 buttons down then add power) and downloaded the configuration again and still no luck.
Thank you for your help TomWS. I really do appreciate it!!! At least I have made it this far and sort of deducted that it could easily be the program. maybe…
Are you using rechargeable AAA batteries? According to the spec sheet they do not provide enough voltage for the board. 3 of them only provides 3.6v while the board needs 3.7v.
Frustrating to learn for me since I don’t own any alkaline batteries.
The controller boards appear to eat batteries like kids eat candy. I’ve already burned through 2 sets of 3AAA batteries in about 2-3 hours of controller being on.
If only there was an edit button. I tried that too. I wanted to go back and add to a reply, but alas… that didn’t work.
The right side joystick works as intended. If I push to the right, the right track will stop then slowly go in reverse and the left track keeps going. If I push the joystick to the left, the opposite happens.
The Left joystick should operate both tracks either forward or backward depending on which way you push. It doesn’t do anything. The bot just goes forward without pushing anything. It will turn with the right joystick, but it doesn’t stop or go backward. That is the issue.
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I have the rocker switch and tried switching to all of the positions. I use Energizer AAA batteries and have changed them twice. As mentioned in an above post, these remotes eat some batteries. Maybe I will print one of the prototype controllers, that way it my desk doesn’t look like a rats nest of wires and switches and stuff.
That’s what I was observing too. This is really frustrating when the remote is dead every next day after having recharged the batteries. I use Eneloop AAA 800 mAh (https://amzn.to/43rII5R), but no other devices burns through these like the CyberBrick boards
