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Introduction:
If you find it difficult and boring to write programs on the Arduino
software and are tired of the boring theoretical study in the previous part,
then in this lesson, we will teach you how to use the vivid, fun and easy
graphical programming and DIY mode on the supporting APP to control the
car to achieve the effect and function you want.
Preparation:
A Smart Robot Car V 4.0 (with battery)
1 The Use of Graphical Programming
1.First of all, please make sure that the Smart Robot Car 4.0 has uploaded
the program successfully. If not, please open the SmartRobotCarV4.0 file in
the folder and then click the program SmartRobotCarV4.0.ino to upload.
After uploading successfully, please turn the“Upoad-Cam”button to“Cam”
and then turn on the power of the car.
2.Turn on the phone to connect to the WiFi hotspot opened by the wifi
module on the car. ( As shown in the figure, the name of the car’s WiFi
hotspot would be :ELEGOO-XXXXXXXXXXXXX(a string of numbers), this string
of numbers is a unique ID of the car, just like our ID card number.)
3.After the WiFi has been connected successfully, we can open our
supporting APP.
EleRobot
4.Enter the menu interface, and we need to first make sure that the
current interface is the control interface of SmartRobotCar .
5.Then click "Program" for graphical programming.
6.After entering the "Program" interface, please make sure that the
phone is connected to the car successfully. If the connection status icon in
the upper right corner is disconnected, please click this icon to connect
first. After the connection is successful, you can proceed with specific
operations.
Then we click“Motion”as an example.
②
Please select the type of the
function you want to implement.
①
Let`s choose one of the
functions as an example
and drag it out with a
② long press.
Now we can see the
① implementation of
various functions in
the“Motion”type.
At the point, you need to match
the concave-convex position.
Finally,click the icon to save it.
We can click on this
icon to see the
project we created.
You can also click the purple button to stop execution.
Now you can click the green button and you will see
the car execute your instruction in sequence.
After sablng,you can
click it to see your
project.
You can click this to Rename or
Delete your project.
2 DIY Mode
In the DIY mode, we can design our own buttons to send customized
messages to the car. At the same time, we can also write a program through
Arduino software and upload it to the car according to our customized
information, so that the car can perform corresponding operations based
on the messages we send.
1.Select“DIY”on the menu interface. (First of all, you need to make sure
that WiFi is connected.)
We can set the button by long press.
Information Bar
We can click
Clear information this icon
to see the
project you
create
We can also send information directly here.
2.If you have uploaded the complete SmartRobotCarV4.0.ino program,
then you could verify the settings as follows.
We set the Message format as "{" + "Message" + "}"
And you can choose to send the messages in characters or hexadecimal
numbers.
Take the above figure as an example, the other keys are set in turn
as follows:
When the setting is finished, please press the keys in sequence, and if
we receive the return message (as shown in the following figure), it means
the DIY setting is successful.
3.Now, let’s program a simple example depends on the DIY function.
The specific implementation chart is as follows:
Implementation principle of DIY Demo1
UNO Device RGB LED
Mobile phone
Serial
Device wifi
(DIY Data Send)
Communication Communication
ESP32 wifi
Device Serial
4.First of all, let’s complete part of the programming of the car.
Please open Demo 1 in the current folder:
5.We need to process the data {Message} received by the serial port to
get Message.
This return value is the parsed command information.
int SerialPortDataAnalysis(void)
Serial.available():return to the serial buffer, the current number of
characters remaining in the buffer of the serial port. This function is
generally used to determine if there is data in the buffer of the serial port.
Serial.read(): take out and read a Byte data from the buffer of the
serial port.
int atoi(const char *str):Converts the string pointed by the parameter
str to an integer (int type).
s.substr(pos, end):Intercepts the character string substring from
pos (including 0) to end in the string s, and returns.
c_str():Converts the string object to a string style in C.
6.After we parse out the key command information, we can operate our
car to perform different operations based on different information.
In our example in this lesson, we change the color of the colored lights on
the car by sending different information: {1}, {2}, {3} and {4}.
If you don't know how to change the color of the light, you can go back and
read the Demo5 review in Lesson 7 to find out.
Of course, you can also make the car achieve the function you want
according to your own ideas.
void Event()
7.After the program is written, turn the“Upload-Cam”button to“Upload”
to upload the program. And turn it back to“Cam”after the program has
been uploaded successfully and then take out your phone to connect to WiFi.
8.Finally, open the APP to enter the DIY mode. First, you need to make
sure the WiFi is connected, and then set the button as shown in the
figure bellow.
Click the button 1, 2, 3 and 4 to send message {1}, {2}, {3} and {4}. The car
will change the color of the LED light according to the messages sent by
different buttons.
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