Hello
We got my son the IR Starter Robot Kit for his birthday. We had managed to get it connected and update the firmware with my MacBook pro when he got it and managed to upload a simple programme and the robot worked.
This weekend we got the bluetooth module for it as well as the LED panel and have been trying to connect it both to an iPad to use the make block app. The robot is connecting to the app but we cannot get it to do any of the commands, it just sits there doing nothing. It is connected via bluetooth to the iPad as the blue light on the module stays on.
We thought we should check the firmware was ok for it so tried to connect it to my MacBook pro but every time we do it fully crashes my macbook to a black restart screen. I’ve got the latest mblock 3.3.8 software and running Mac OS 10.12. I have connected it via usb with the buzzer off, bluetooth module unplugged, battery pack unplugged and each time it crashes my laptop.
Is there any way around this or am i missing something really obvious.
It would be lovely to have a proper instruction book on how to code or a really basic first project coded project for these kits.
Starter Robot crashing mac when connected
I’ve managed to get it working finally but trawling through the forum posts. Thanks to all of those who’ve already posted up fixes for this and sorry for not looking harder in the first place.
Now, has anyone got a link how to program the 8x16 led matrix for an orion board?
Hi Knitgirl,
If you want to program the 8 x 16 matrix for an Orion board, you need program with Arduino software since graphical program software mBlock doesn’t integrated the LED matrix for Orion board.
You can download the makeblock library in this link: https://github.com/Makeblock-official/Makeblock-Libraries/archive/master.zip
After you download and unzip the makeblock library, you can put it in the libraries file under the Arduino software’s installation path.
And then you can refer to the example program for 8x16 led matrix and orion board
For more info about Arduino program, please refer to this link:http://learn.makeblock.com/en/learning-arduino-programming/