Hello,
The IR remote is giving me hard time. I have to press multiple times before it takes the command. The red LED on ME Infrared receiver seems to be blinking when I press a button but the robot is not taking the command right away.
Note, the battery is new…
Any idea what can be wrong?
Thanks,
Philippe
Hello Philippe,
So sorry about the issue of IR remote, we are trying to develop the design of it. Recently, we made a comprehensive upgrade of all the electronic modules. We add a decoder chip on Me-Infrared Receiver, so it will be more stability and useful, and the issue you discribe will not exist any more.
We will finish the production of the new electronic modules this month, and we decide to send all the new electronic modules to your Kickstarer Backers for free. We will make a update of this on the Kickstarer in a few days. We will send you the new modules as soon as the production finished.
So sorry about the issue of the IR remote, we will try our best to help you with the problem of our products. And will send you the new electronic modules soon.
Thank you for your support! If there are any other questions, post them on our forum or send me an email. My email address is：
eric@makeblock.com
Most of the IR receiver in the market are similar, the main component on the board is a IR receiver sensor, the main control board is in charge of decoding the IR signal, this process need a lot of computing capacity from MCU, if using some low computing capacity boards such as Arduino UNO, this will surely cause some problems, it’s nearly impossible to get real-time response, because MCU spent most of time on decoding the IR signal.
Part of the reason is that there are some interference signals outside, thus cause decoding the signal failure. Interference signal may come from the motor, especially the motor speed is high.
IN the next version of the IR receiver design, Makeblock engineer put a special decoding IC on the receiver, thus the MCU will have more computing capacity to response the commands, and now real-time response is possible
Wonderful indeed. First I can stop figuring why the IR signals aren’t recognized and second for the decision to replace the already delivered modules with the new ones fro free. Great news guys, great news…
I also have a hard time to use the IR Receiver. What’s more, when can we get the new modules? Is it very soon?
FWIW, I’ve found that noise is particularly bad on the IR line when the motors are running full speed; keep the speed down and they’re significantly more reliable. (Which is still not good, though)
