Elegoo seem to make decent stuff, I have one of their Arduino starter kits, and the documentation that came (on a CD) with it is excellent, with projects and sample code for all the modules in the kit, starting from very basic programming and working it's way up. They seem to buck the trend for non-existent instructions that so many other tech companies follow!
Nice one! You should put the tyres on with the profiles pointing in the same direction though. :p I am going to learn the basics of arduino programming soon, at evening school (don't know how it's called in english), looking forward to that.
Driven by 4 independent motors? That's a perfect candidate for some mecanum wheels. Given the right coding, an RC car with mecanum wheels should be able to drive just like a quadcopter flies, with pitch+roll+yaw control.
@@CurryKitten I've been intending to make a mecanum wheeled RC car for a long time now, printing the wheels myself, but other projects & ideas keep getting in the way, like last weekend I put a Zhiyun Z1 Tiny2 3-axis gimbal on an RC car holding an FPV camera - it makes FPV RC car driving a whole lot more fun because the camera is rock-steady.
I might be misunderstanding the question, but you can't simply read the code that's loaded on the Arduino (well you can, but just the binary version) so what I was doing is downloading the base code that would be running on the car from the Web site and then making my changes on top of that. Does that answer the question?
I enjoyed your video, seeing how stuff work/perform instead of having to buy it. From these robotic vehicles I'm expecting a whole lot more than what they could do 20 years ago.. There was this cute little robot vehicle called Cybot that had the exact same sensors..they could even chase balls and play "soccer" with other Cybots if I'm not mistaken, but I discontinued the series of magazines before I got to that edition.. the computer boards were different and occupied a bit more space. I think for modern robot toys today they could've at least added more sonar sensors for object avoidance AND light sensors.. Cybot followed a torch's light spot on the ground quite accurate...I miss the little bugger (excuse the pun, they did look like bugs with their antennas that ended in green led lights😄).
I had both the robots, although the annoyance of constantly having to swap circuit boards out in order to give it new functionality was a pain. I do take your point, but the idea with these ones is that they are a starting point. You build it, you play with the code see if you can make it do some things, and then you add on extra sensors to do more
Hi there Looking for some help with my sons Elegoo smart robot car v4.0. He has lost the instructions and is patiently waiting for me to try find some of at all possible could I get a copy please if anybody has one much appreciated
If you look at the support part of the Elgato website, you'll find the instructions there. Look at www.elegoo.com/pages/arduino-kits-support-files and into robot kits which will lead you to the manual download here 69.195.111.207/tutorial-download/?t=RobotCarV4.0
Whoops - I didn't look very hard did I? Very embarrassing as I've learnt the Hiragana and Katakana alphabets for my upcoming Japanese trip this year. With just about everything I touch coming from China - it's what you'd normally see in some parts of the instructions... I'll look harder next time :)
I would suggest you start out going through their tutorials that do a nice job of covering the basics step by step. If you just attempt to throw on the completed code that I used you won't know what's going on and why it works
On the website, can be a bit of a pain to locate, but you can find it all here www.elegoo.com/blogs/arduino-projects/elegoo-smart-robot-car-kit-v3-0-plus-v3-0-v2-0-tutorial?_pos=4&_sid=c51b5125a&_ss=r
Yes indeed - although I do like to show how it behaves out of the box to start with. The idea is that people jump in and have a go at tweaking lots of aspects of the code.
@@CurryKitten Interesting. A native English speaker could still be behind the misplaced singular form if they translated from a source language with no plural form. Then they would have had to understand the robot to know what form to use. Not that it matters, I get going because translation is my day job. Fascinating review - the robot probably has its shortcomings, but it seemed more intelligent than some of the human road users we see every day.
Elegoo seem to make decent stuff, I have one of their Arduino starter kits, and the documentation that came (on a CD) with it is excellent, with projects and sample code for all the modules in the kit, starting from very basic programming and working it's way up. They seem to buck the trend for non-existent instructions that so many other tech companies follow!
Yeah - I wasn't expecting anything that good, I was very pleasantly surprised
Nice one! You should put the tyres on with the profiles pointing in the same direction though. :p I am going to learn the basics of arduino programming soon, at evening school (don't know how it's called in english), looking forward to that.
Haha - I did not notice I'd done that. I wasn't paying any attention to the tread direction. Enjoy your Arduino course, they are good fun to play with
hey curry, im 13 and really enjoy watching your videos !
Glad to hear it!
You know why your video is better than the others? Because you didnt use irritating background music....you talked instead and that was much better.
Driven by 4 independent motors? That's a perfect candidate for some mecanum wheels.
Given the right coding, an RC car with mecanum wheels should be able to drive just like a quadcopter flies, with pitch+roll+yaw control.
I like that idea, I wonder if I can pick some up and mess around with that idea
@@CurryKitten I've been intending to make a mecanum wheeled RC car for a long time now, printing the wheels myself, but other projects & ideas keep getting in the way, like last weekend I put a Zhiyun Z1 Tiny2 3-axis gimbal on an RC car holding an FPV camera - it makes FPV RC car driving a whole lot more fun because the camera is rock-steady.
can u please provide with the link u downloaded the code for the car from bacause i couldnt find it (time 26 in the video).
All the code resources are here www.elegoo.com/blogs/arduino-projects/elegoo-smart-robot-car-kit-v3-0-plus-v3-0-v2-0-tutorial
Hello, thank you for the video.
I just have one question, how did you read the code that exists in the arduino with the sdk?
I might be misunderstanding the question, but you can't simply read the code that's loaded on the Arduino (well you can, but just the binary version) so what I was doing is downloading the base code that would be running on the car from the Web site and then making my changes on top of that. Does that answer the question?
I have this kit, but it didnt come with instructions. Thank you! also, how did you get the remote to work?
i want to add push-button for control the vehicle how can do this ,?
How do you get the motors on the black thing?
You should try the adeept rasptank pro
That's a nice looking kit as well - shame they don't also throw a pi in to the kit to make it complete
Lovely. Thanks so much for your video. Now I know well what this tiny robot can do. I will order one for me and my son to play together.
Nice - have fun building together
I enjoyed your video, seeing how stuff work/perform instead of having to buy it. From these robotic vehicles I'm expecting a whole lot more than what they could do 20 years ago.. There was this cute little robot vehicle called Cybot that had the exact same sensors..they could even chase balls and play "soccer" with other Cybots if I'm not mistaken, but I discontinued the series of magazines before I got to that edition.. the computer boards were different and occupied a bit more space. I think for modern robot toys today they could've at least added more sonar sensors for object avoidance AND light sensors.. Cybot followed a torch's light spot on the ground quite accurate...I miss the little bugger (excuse the pun, they did look like bugs with their antennas that ended in green led lights😄).
I had both the robots, although the annoyance of constantly having to swap circuit boards out in order to give it new functionality was a pain. I do take your point, but the idea with these ones is that they are a starting point. You build it, you play with the code see if you can make it do some things, and then you add on extra sensors to do more
Hi there
Looking for some help with my sons Elegoo smart robot car v4.0. He has lost the instructions and is patiently waiting for me to try find some of at all possible could I get a copy please if anybody has one much appreciated
If you look at the support part of the Elgato website, you'll find the instructions there. Look at www.elegoo.com/pages/arduino-kits-support-files and into robot kits which will lead you to the manual download here 69.195.111.207/tutorial-download/?t=RobotCarV4.0
26:32 ah yes, that is clearly “chinese”
but anyway great video! thanks!
Whoops - I didn't look very hard did I? Very embarrassing as I've learnt the Hiragana and Katakana alphabets for my upcoming Japanese trip this year. With just about everything I touch coming from China - it's what you'd normally see in some parts of the instructions... I'll look harder next time :)
Comprehensive review Wayne.
Thanks muchly - I could have gone on for longer, but I figured it was long enough :)
I'm on Android and I'm having a hard time connecting the car to my phone via Wi-Fi, any ideas?
On this version of the car, there is no wifi - the app uses Bluetooth
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Can you help me? I want to put that code you have for the controller into my bot but I’m a little new to it
I would suggest you start out going through their tutorials that do a nice job of covering the basics step by step. If you just attempt to throw on the completed code that I used you won't know what's going on and why it works
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How do you get the code for the whole thing?
On the website, can be a bit of a pain to locate, but you can find it all here www.elegoo.com/blogs/arduino-projects/elegoo-smart-robot-car-kit-v3-0-plus-v3-0-v2-0-tutorial?_pos=4&_sid=c51b5125a&_ss=r
The code can be tweaked so that it doesn't keep repeating when it's in a corner... you can also look at the code and adjust it spinning speed
Yes indeed - although I do like to show how it behaves out of the box to start with. The idea is that people jump in and have a go at tweaking lots of aspects of the code.
What do you use to charge the battery pack
There's a supplied USB cable
Make it fly, lol. I would watch your light bulb review.
Haha - given that this review hasn't been overwhelmingly popular, I don't think you might be on your own in watching a lightbulb review :D
The front tread wrong way round OCD
I completely missed the tread pattern !
Great video thanks😊
You’re welcome 😊
Nicely explained sir 👏
Thanks :)
Motor/motors could be a translation flaw. Some Asian languages may not have a plural form as we know it.
Maybe - the rest of the documentation was really good though - not a hint of Chinglish to speak of
@@CurryKitten Interesting. A native English speaker could still be behind the misplaced singular form if they translated from a source language with no plural form. Then they would have had to understand the robot to know what form to use. Not that it matters, I get going because translation is my day job. Fascinating review - the robot probably has its shortcomings, but it seemed more intelligent than some of the human road users we see every day.
naaaa
But at least you got in there first today