Hi!

Don't worry, people with arduino experience have the most trouble grasping the simplicity of ez-robot because it's, well, easy So you can be productive and create something impressive.

ARC uses the concept of MOVEMENT PANELS. A Movement Panel is how your robot knows to how to move. Movement panels can be animated GAIT for humanoids/hexapods or even HBridge. In your case, you want the HBridge PWM Movement panel.

Remove everything you did manually with PWM, because this isn't Arduino and the controls take care of everything for you :D. Here is the HBridge Control you need: https://synthiam.com/Tutorials/Help.aspx?id=192

Now, once you have that working, the EZ-Script commands: Forward(), Left(), Right(), Stop(), Reverse(), etc... will magically work everywhere you use them. That means you can add a speech recognition control and it will just magically start working: https://synthiam.com/Tutorials/Help.aspx?id=90

Or you can add a joystick control and boom, it works: https://synthiam.com/Tutorials/Help.aspx?id=43

Or you can add a mobile interface control and use the Forward(), etc commands on the buttons: https://synthiam.com/Tutorials/Help.aspx?id=196

If you're wanting to add dynamic speed control on the Mobile Interface that you create, simply add Sliders to the mobile interface, one for each track. Edit the code to SetSpeed() or PWM(), which ever you prefer.

Or if add more directional buttons to change the speed

Here, i made this for you: TrackRobot.EZB

1. Download and save it

2. Load the project

3. Edit the HBridge control to specify your wires and PWM connections

4. Load it on your phone

*Note: You may wish to adjust the speed of the PWM in each button and the Connection Control's Init Script as i set them all for 255 :D

*Oops, first version of TrackRobot.EZB that i uploaded had an error. Fixed

DJ Thanks for the reply!

I'm still seeing the controls as toggle buttons (Hence the stop button). This makes finesse control of a tanked bot quite difficult. I was honestly hoping for some sort of analog control, that returns to centre when released.

I can see using the slider for the turn ratio, I just wasn't sure how to have it decide which side to slow down. (Hence the previous if statement)

Any chance I could use a mobile joystick control, or a touch pad or something?

###Update - iOS - H Bridge control works (as toggle buttons) but the custom buttons aren't functioning. Also Clicking on the connection manager (top left) crashes the program.

YEah - there's no analog control for mobile yet. Although you can get creative with sliders or the servo pad.

An analog joystick style control is on the Todo list for those wanting to remote control robots.

In the meantime, try out some robot feature. Like speech recognition and camera detection, tracking, etc. That's where the fun begins :D

Ensure you have the latest ARC on your mobile device. Old iOS devices may have issues processing the data. Any newer iOS device will be rock solid for processing... although, apple hasn't been on the top of my favorites list these days. Have fun!

Oooo, the direction buttons don't work because i uploaded the wrong project when i said i fixed it in a previous response... my bad stress! Here's the correct project: TrackRobot.EZB

*Note: i had Speed() instead of SetSpeed() in the direction buttons

What about accelerometer access on the phone? Is that currently possible? Could tie the pan and tilt of the phone to control the bot. This would be awesome in conjection with the camera on the front of the machine.

Seems overkill for this, but down the road I'll be looking to use something similar to a Google cardboard to control the head of my InMoov. I was really hoping to have a bit more granular access to components. (Dream, Create, Excel!)

Do you have a scripting guide or reference doc to assist with code integration? My partner's a comSCI major just itching to push the envelope on the inmoov.

:)

Yes - you could do that using the WiiMote control. Although, moving a robot with accelerometer isn't practical imo but give it a shot if you're interested :D

Scripting guides are in the learn section.

There's more than ARC for software, as there's also SDK's and UWP library. You can decide what to use, and they're located in the software section.

ie if you're wanting your own controls, there's plugin ability as well. If you want to add onto the ez-scripting environment, you can do extend the EZ-Script with user defined functions in a plugin. Find more information in the software section.

I recommend spending some time on www.ez-robot.com and take some activites in the tutorials. Experiment a bit and learn the environment with example, etc.. It's a gigantic ecosystem.

There's literally no limit. Have fun!

Wow DJ, still giving your personal "all" to us. It still impresses me how you get involved with people's issues and questions right down to the level of making demo projects to help us through our process.

Heck, if you're looking for things to do like this I should ask you to download my very complicated B9 project from your cloud. Then go over it to see if I'm over complicating my control process. LOL. I sometime wonder "Is this what DJ would do?". :)

I recommend upgrading to latest version of ARC: https://synthiam.com/Community/Questions/9782

Also, read the release notes regarding the timeline for the iOS and Android app to be approved.

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That's what I'm talking about! Analog sticks, and some pretty serious code interface. I am impressed!

Thank you!