Introduction This Kit contains mechanical parts and electronic modules for you to start exploring the robot world, it can be used to build a robot tank or a three-wheel robot car. With the following electronic modules: Makeblock Orion controller(Arduino UNO compatiable), ultrasonic ranger sensor, IR remote controller and IR receiver, an IR contrtol robot or an ultrasonic obstacle-avoiding robot can be build. The Me series electronic modules are easy-to-use, very friendly to beginners.
Part List Please follow paper instructions included in this kit to put all parts together, or download instruction ( PDF ) below. https://github.com/Makeblock-official/AssemblyInstructions/raw/master/starter%20robot%20kit(IR%20version)-Instruction-V5.0.
Control You can download the bluetooth control App to by scanning the QR code, or visit app.makeblock.cc to know more details. If there’s some problem with the App, please check “Help” in it. Programming Working with mBlock–Hack the Physical World The Starter Robot Kit supports mBlock perfectly which allow you reprogramming your robot by simply drag and joint the blocks of mBlock. No more difficult coding.
mBlock is a free modified version of Scratch 2.0 developed by MIT Media Lab, mBlock add some hardware-related blocks in the original Scratch, with these blocks, users can read sensors, control motors and even a whole robot. Besides blocks for the basic microcontroller functionalities, analog and digital writes and reads, PWM outputs. There are also blocks for each specific electronic modules, such as ultrasonic sensor, temperature sensor, light sensor, DC motor driver, stepper driver, etc.
The Electronic Add-on Pack is to expand on your Starter Robot Kit. There are 8 electronic modules in it. With this add-on pack and Starter Kit, you can create a lot of cool project. You can also implement several projects in Inventor Electronic Kit. Robotic Arm Add-on Pack for Starter Robot Kit-Blue Robot Arm Add-on Pack serves to transform your Starter Robot Kit to a robotic-arm tank.
Q: How to reset default program for Starter_IR through mBlock A: Step 1. Please keep the buzzer be turned off, show as the following picture: Step 2. Reset default program via mBlock, as follows: 1. Download the latest mBlock in this link and decompress it: http://www.mblock.cc/download 2.
3. Install the mBlock software and open it, then choose the Me Orion under Board: 4.
5. 5. Then choose the factory program for your device by going to Connect->Reset Default Program->Starter IR, then Close when it shows Upload Finish. Step 3. After reset default program, please pull out the USB cable, power on the device and you can drive it through IR Remote Controller. Note: Above Steps take Windows PC for example, if your PC is Mac, you need pay attention to two points bellow: 1.
2. When choose Serial port under Connect->Serial Port, please choose /dev/tty.wchusbserial1410 Q: Starter goes reversed direction. A: There are different conditions: 1. When you press left, the robot goes forward, and when you press right, the robot goes backward, you have to change the position of the two yellow terminals. 2. After that, if the robot still works weirdly, for example, when press forward but runs backward, but backward when press forward. you have to change the black and white wire.
6. After uploading firmware, please turn on your robot (battery should be installed), select “FileLoad Project”, upload control.sb2 (73.3 KB)the project file. 7. Try to control your robot with arrow keys in your PC keyboard. (Make sure you have connected your robot tank to PC, and battery is fully charged) Q: Whats the difference of IR version and the Bluetooth version? A: for the Starter, no other difference, IR version use a remote controller, and bluetooth use by bluetooth connection.
