My grandson and I just built the Starter robot kit IR version. When we plug in the battery pack we get red lights on the infrared receiver, the circuit board and the ultrasonic season. But, the robot will not respond at all to any remote input. Is there a troubleshooting guide somewhere that I can use to pinpoint the issue?
Trouble with starter kit IR
gebalazs
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Dear Xeno,
I experienced the very same thing a few weeks ago. It was very frustrating and made me think that the motors or something else is defective. It didn’t respond to the IR controller and I even couldn’t make it work the Makeblock software. I tried to update the firmware using the mentioned software but it also did nothing.
But I managed to fix it finally. Actually I had to install Arduino + Makeblock libraries and had to update the firmware on the robot. Than everything started to work as it should.
I hope I could help! If I can help more just let me know (all mentioned things are downloaded on my Mac).