Remote control - varying speeds of response

[RN1_Humanoid]

Hi All, I finished building my Robonova earlier today and am very happy with how it turned out, one thing which im not so sure about is the speed at which the standard moves are performed via the remote control, some times the response seems to be almost instant and on other occassions the response only happens after pressing the button a number of times (even with the same moves), is this normal?

I also noticed that the blue LED in the head is flashing, should this be steady or is the flashing correct?

Thanks,

Phil.

[Ric]

Hi

My remote's the same, has a mind of it's own.
My head light also flashes. It didn't initially but started after I added a few mods. It's a voltage thing or something, can be low battery, can need some code added to measure it. Search the forums here there's plenty of info around.

Welcome to the RN1 community.

Ric

[hivemind]

The flashing head LED indicates a low voltage reading -although if you did not make a voltage measruing chip to place on your bot then it will always recieve a low level for a reading and thus the LED will flash... furthermore, this interupts basic functioning and makes it very hard to control via the remote and I suggest that you remove the voltage subroutine from the overall template program (it is near the begining -commented off).

-Hive

[Humanoido]

Take a look at page 95 in the manual. There's a schematic for constructing a low voltage detection circuit. The code, after the template is loaded in, expects a value from the A/D port using this circuit. You have a couple choices - either build the circuit and run RN as it was intended, or remove the code. However, if the code is removed, RN won't let you know properly when the battery pack needs recharging. Instead of the blue light flashing three times, RN will go into some spasmodic behavior which could be dangerous. Matt Bauer at Bauer Independents has an excellent tutorial on how to contruct this circuit. Also, once the circuit is installed, the detection voltage is set according to the given formula. By adjusting the number, an alert will result and the battery can be recharged before RN goes spasmodic. Hope this is helpful. Humanoido