In this lesson, we will use a Mobile APP to control the 2WD robot car through ESP8266 Wi-Fi Chip. You will learn how to install ESPWebmaster library, how to get Wifi Network IP address of your Arduino board and how to communicate between Arduino board and Wi-Fi net through Serial port.
Hardware Installation
Hardware installation and motor connection are exactly the same as Lesson 1, you must make sure the lesson 1 project works well. Otherwise, this project can’t get through.
You also need to connect the two ESP_TX to D4 and ESP_RX to D5 through the jumper caps showed in the red jumper cap icon in following picture:
(Note: Our OSOYOO Uart WiFi shield V1.3 are connected BLE URAT TX/RX ports to D4,D5 with jumper caps by default. If you find the BLE URAT TX/RX ports are connected, you need remove these jumper caps and change to connect ESP URAT E-TX to D4 and E-RX to D5)
ESP URAT:
D4 – E-TX
D5 – E-RX
Software Installation
Step 1)
Download OSOYOO Wi-Fi UDP Robot Car control APP
In Google Play or Apple Store, please search keywords “OSOYOO IoT UDP Robot Car”, you will find a red icon APP as following (Note: If you can not find this APP in Google Play, you can directly download the APP from following link: https://osoyoo.com/driver/udp-app.apk ):
Open Arduino IDE →click Sketch →Include Library →Add .ZIP library, then load above two zip files into OSOYOO Basic Board for Arduino.
Step 3) Please download STA mode sketch code from https://osoyoo.com/driver/2wd/lesson5.zip. Unzip the file, you will see a folder “lesson5”. Open Arduino IDE → click file → click Open → choose code “lesson5.ino” in above folder, load the code into OSOYOO Basic Board for Arduino.
Note: You need to change the code in line 71,72
char ssid[] = “***”; // replace *** with your router wifi SSID
char pass[] = “***”; // replace *** your wifi password
Now upload the lesson5.ino sketch to OSOYOO Basic Board for Arduino. Finally, click the Serial monitor window in upper right corner of Arduino IDE, you will see following result:
In the above example, I can see an IP address 192.168.0.117, which is the Arduino board IP address assigned by our router. Please write down this IP address and click Setting to set up robot IP address and set this IP address to your APP Setting section and Port to 8888 in settings.
For example, if your Serial monitor shows your Arduino IP address is 192.168.1.81 , you can set it to APP as per the following pictures:
Testing
You can click the ◄ button to make left turn (rotate steering wheel counterclockwise), click ► button to make right turn (rotate steering wheel clockwise), if you keep press these two buttons, it will turn at sharper angle.
▲ button will make car move forward and ▼ key will make car move backward. Press the [] button in the middle can stop the car,
Notice: Shut off your battery or unplug your power adapter when upload sketch code to Arduino.
Disconnect Arduino from PC, put 2 fully-charged 18650 battery into battery pox (check the box instruction and make sure polar direction is correct, otherwise it can destroy your device and cause fire hazard). Please install your battery as per the following instruction:
